BISHOP QUINTARD AND SEWANEE
The enthusiasm with which Bishop Quintard, immediately after his
consecration, took up and pushed forward whatever promised to be of
spiritual benefit to the people of the South, was characteristic of the
man. Especially attractive to him was the scheme set forth in the
address by Bishop Polk to the Bishops of the Southern Dioceses,
published in 1856, emphasizing the importance of building up an
educational institution upon broad foundations, for the promotion of
social order, civil justice, and Christian truth; to be centrally
located within the Southern States. The scheme had been formulated and
developed by its projector and originator, Bishop Polk; and "The
University of the South" was duly organized in 1857. A liberal charter
was secured from the State of Tennessee; title was acquired to a domain
of nearly ten thousand acres of land upon the top of Sewanee Mountain;
the corner-stone of a main college building was laid; and pledges of an
endowment amounting to half a million of dollars were obtained before
the war broke out.
In the fall of 1865, before his election to the Episcopate, Dr. Quintard
met upon a train between Nashville and Columbia, the Rev. David Pise, a
prominent presbyter of the Diocese of Tennessee, and Secretary of the
Board of Trustees of The University of the South as it was organized
before the war. On the same train was Major George R. Fairbanks, of
Florida, a lay Trustee on said Board. The conversation of these three
gentlemen was upon the proposed University. The magnificent domain
secured for that institution, it was asserted, would revert to its
donors unless the proposed University were in operation within ten years
of the date of the donation, that is, in 1868. Dr. Quintard pledged
himself not only to save the domain, but to revive the scheme for the
University and to establish such an institution of learning as Bishop
Polk, Bishop Otey, and others had in view when The University of the
South was organized in 1857.
The day that he took his seat for the first time in the House of
Bishops, Dr. Quintard entered into correspondence with the Rev. John
Austin Merrick, D.D., a "man of godly and sound learning," and offered
to meet him in Winchester, Tennessee, on a specified day; to go with him
to Sewanee and see what might be done toward carrying out the
educational enterprise which was intended to mean so much to the
Southern people, and which meant all the more to them in the condition
in which the war had left them.
The way for such a movement had been prepared at the special convention
of the Diocese of Tennessee at which Dr. Quintard had been elected
Bishop. Reviving a measure that had evidently been adopted in 1861, at
the last convention over which Bishop Otey had presided, (the journal of
this convention was lost in the printing office to which it was
committed for publication,) the special convention of 1865 appointed a
committee to take measures for establishing, (with the concurrence of
the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University,) a
Diocesan Training and Theological School upon the University domain. Dr.
Quintard, as Bishop-elect, had made sure that the war had not impaired
the charter, nor up to that time, the title to the domain; even though
it had swept away the endowment, and though soldiers of both armies,
marching over the mountain and encamping about the spot, had amused
themselves by blowing up the corner-stone laid in 1860, and making out
of the fragments trinkets for their sweet-hearts.
In the course of his first series of visitations throughout his immense
Diocese, in March 1866, Bishop Quintard arrived in Winchester, and there
met the Rev. Dr. Merrick, the Rev. Thomas A. Morris, rector of the
church in Winchester, and Major George R. Fairbanks. Accompanied by
these gentlemen he ascended the mountain, visited "University Place,"
(Sewanee,) and found shelter and a most cordial hospitality in a log
cabin occupied by Mr. William Tomlinson. He selected locations for
buildings for the Diocesan Training School and a site for a chapel. In
the evening he erected a rustic cross about twelve feet in height, upon
the latter site, which is the exact spot whereon now stands the oratory
of St. Luke's Hall. Gathered around the cross with the Bishop and his
companions, were members of Mr. Tomlinson's household, a few
mountaineers and some negro workmen. The Nicene Creed was recited and
the Bishop knelt down and prayed God to give to those who were then
engaging in a great enterprise, "grace both to perceive and know what
things they ought to do, and strength faithfully to fulfill the same."
The woods rang with the strains of "Gloria in Excelsis." It was a scene
worthy of association with those of the sixteenth century, where
discoverers and Conquistadores preempted new lands by planting a cross
and claiming the territory for their king and for the Church. Thus was
the domain at Sewanee reclaimed for the King of Kings and for the cause
of Christian education.
The site selected for the University in ante-bellum times was ideal for
the purpose to which it was consecrated. Sewanee is on a spur of the
Cumberland Mountains,--a plateau some two thousand feet above the level
of the sea and about one thousand feet above the surrounding valleys.
The scenery is of unparalleled grandeur with many points of picturesque
beauty,--primeval forests, cliffs, ravines and caves,--immediately at
hand. The climate is of such a character as to exempt the residents from
malarial or pulmonary troubles. It is especially adapted to the
requirements of a school whose terms were to be held in the summer
months and with mid-winter vacations, to suit the convenience of a
southern population whose home life was more or less likely to be broken
up in the summer.
The conception of a grand landed domain as an important feature in the
planning and planting of an institution of learning, was at that time
quite unusual in America. Colleges and universities had previously
looked to populous centers and environment to build them up and sustain
them. The University of the South deliberately chose to go out into the
wilderness and create therein its own environment. The site had been
carefully studied by Bishop Hopkins, who was an accomplished architect
and landscape gardener, and who had it mapped, and had a tentative
scheme of buildings designed for it upon the models of the English
Universities.
In furtherance of the enterprise, Bishop Quintard accepted the tender of
a lease, for educational purposes, of a school property in Winchester,
twelve miles from Sewanee, at the foot of the mountains; and there
established "Sewanee College," with Major Fairbanks as President of the
Board of Trustees, and with Rev. F. L. Knight, D. D., and a competent
faculty in charge. Although this Collegiate Institute was formally
opened and remained in operation for a time, the Bishop found it too
expensive for him to maintain; and so, as the University developed, he
gave up the lease of the Winchester property and concentrated his
efforts upon the work at Sewanee.
He made immediate efforts to collect funds to advance the work of
building up the Diocesan Training School. He recorded with deep
gratitude the gift of $1000 and of a handsome communion service from
Mrs. Barnum of Baltimore. The following May, out of funds thus early
collected, a building was erected and called "Otey Hall." That summer
the Bishop and Major Fairbanks erected residences near Otey Hall and
removed their families to Sewanee.
The Episcopal residence at Sewanee was at first a log dwelling-house.
This was improved and added to until it assumed the character of what
the Bishop was wont to call "the cucumber-vine style of architecture,"
and acquired the name of Fulford Hall, in commemoration of the Canadian
Metropolitan who had participated in the Bishop's consecration. Memphis
had been made the residence of Bishop Otey in the latter part of his
Episcopate, and as the work at Sewanee increased and that place became
widely known and its importance recognized, the Memphians regarded it
with some jealousy and sought to secure the person of the Bishop by
providing a residence for him in that city on the western borders of the
Diocese. The Bishop accordingly adopted Memphis as his winter residence.
But his work at Sewanee was too dear to his heart to permit his
abandoning his home there,--as much as a Bishop could be said to have a
home anywhere. And so while Memphis became officially the ecclesiastical
capital of his Diocese, he strove earnestly to make Sewanee the
scholastic, and, to some extent, the ecclesiastical capital of all the
Southern Dioceses, and in great measure he succeeded.
It would be impossible to estimate the value of the Bishop's thus fixing
his residence at Sewanee, not only to the work of building up the
University, but in its influence upon the cause of Christian education.
For The University of the South "has been built up upon men, not upon
things." The faith, the enthusiasm and the personal magnetism of Bishop
Quintard drew around him at Sewanee a band of high-minded and
consecrated clergymen and laymen of fine scholarship and noble aims.
Thus was realized the idea of Bishop Polk, who, when on one occasion he
was asked in reference to the apparently isolated location of the
University, "Where will you get your society?" replied, "We will make
it; and not only so, but we will surround our University with such a
society as is nowhere else possible in this land."
The tone, the temper, the social and religious atmosphere of Sewanee
came from Bishop Quintard more than from anyone else. For the first
twenty years of the University's existence at least, it could almost be
said that Bishop Quintard was Sewanee and that Sewanee was Bishop
Quintard; and throughout that period Fulford Hall was the visible center
of Sewanee life. Into it the Bishop gathered the spolia of his travels,
rich art treasures, rare and valuable books and autographs, and made it
a most interesting place to visit. When the building was destroyed by
fire in June, 1889, most of its interior attractions were saved from the
flames through the energetic efforts of the students of the University,
and the elegant building which replaced it, retains the name of Fulford
Hall. Therein the Bishop passed the last years of his life. It is still
the residence of the Vice-Chancellor of the University.
Bishop Elliott of Georgia, the senior Bishop of the Southern Dioceses,
was likewise deeply interested in the University and was ex-officio
Chancellor. At the suggestion of Bishop Quintard, he called a meeting of
the Board of Trustees to be held at "University Place" in October, 1866.
It was attended by the Bishops of Georgia, Mississippi, Arkansas and
Tennessee, respectively, together with several clerical and lay members
of the Board who unanimously resolved that the work of establishing the
University be prosecuted. Bishop Quintard was appointed a Commissioner
to solicit funds for the erection of plain but substantial buildings, in
order that the University might begin its work at the earliest possible
date. He accordingly made a trip to New Orleans where he held services
in all the churches and made an earnest appeal at every service to the
church people of that city to carry on the work in which the first
Bishop of Louisiana had been so deeply interested.
He was able to report the results of his visit to New Orleans, at a
meeting of the Board of Trustees held at a private residence in
Montgomery, Alabama, in February, 1867. Bishop Elliott had died in
December, 1866, and Bishop Green, of Mississippi, had succeeded him in
the Chancellorship of the University. Bishop Quintard's report to the
Board was of such a character that the Board proceeded to the
reorganization of the University forthwith. The Bishop offered Otey
Hall, at Sewanee, which was capable of accommodating a goodly number of
students, as part of the property of the University, on condition that
the Board adopt the Diocesan Training School (for which the building had
been intended,) as the Theological Department of the University, and the
offer was accepted. The actual establishment of the Theological
Department was delayed, however, for nearly ten years and until more
favorable opportunities offered.
The deliberations of the Board upon the question of the most feasible
plan for beginning work, resulted in the recommendation that a
Vice-Chancellor be elected, and that this officer be charged with the
duty of soliciting subscriptions and otherwise advancing the interests
of the University. Bishop Quintard was thereupon elected Vice-Chancellor
and Major Fairbanks was appointed Commissioner of Lands and Buildings to
act as General Agent and Business Manager; to be associated with the
Bishop in the work of soliciting subscriptions; to reside at the
University site; and, under the direction of the Executive Committee, to
have charge of all business affairs of the University.
No more efficient officers could have been selected, and with this
action of the Board, the University scheme might be said to have been
fairly launched. Of the trials and antagonisms the Bishop was to meet
with in his work, there is no need to speak now. It was no easy matter
to solicit funds for this project at that time. Not only had the South
been impoverished by the war, but the Southern people had not become
fully acquainted with the changed condition of their affairs, and did
not fully appreciate the value of a plan to educate their sons and make
the best citizens of them.
In June, 1867, at the request of the Trustees, the Bishop made an
attempt to raise funds for the erection of additional buildings,
confining his efforts to the state and Diocese of Georgia. Early in
August the corner-stone of St. Augustine's Chapel was laid by Bishop
Green, in the presence of a concourse of clergy and laity. The occasion
was signalized by a dignity of ceremonial befitting the prospective
magnitude of the undertaking. The function began with a celebration of
the Holy Communion in the portion of Otey Hall then used as a chapel.
The Bishops and clergy moved in solemn procession to the spot selected.
The Doctors wore hoods expressive of their degrees. A scholastic as well
as an ecclesiastical tone was thereby given to the function, and from
that time forward The University of the South conformed in the details
of its regulations to the models set by the English Universities. In
1871, the University, then in full working order, adopted the cap and
gown for the distinctive uniform of its advanced students, divided the
Academic Department into Juniors and Gownsmen, and provided rich robes
for the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor. In these respects it was quite
in advance of other institutions of learning in America, though its
customs have since grown in favor with other and older universities.
Still it was possible for some one who attended the commencement in
1891, to write:--"Probably nowhere else in America is there any such
formal and stately collegiate ceremony as at Sewanee."
In 1867, the Bishop being in England, he consented at the earnest
solicitation of his friends, to spend the winter there, and to do what
he could to promote the cause of the University. The influential friends
he made in England took up with enthusiasm a movement which resulted in
such liberal offerings that the University was enabled to start afresh
with most encouraging prospects of final and complete success.
The Rev. Frederick W. Tremlett, of St Peter's Church, Belsize Park,
London, inaugurated the movement and a committee was appointed which
issued a circular inviting subscriptions. The committee consisted of the
Archbishop of York, the Earl of Carnarvon, Viscount Cranbourne,
(afterwards Lord Salisbury,) the Lord Bishop of Oxford, Earl Nelson,
Lord John Manners, the Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone and others. The
Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Campbell Tait, in a letter,
expressed his deepest interest in the project and subscribed twenty-five
pounds toward it. The Archbishop of York, and Bishops of the Anglican
Communion from all parts of Her Majesty's realms, expressed a like
sympathy. Among the subscribers were names of great distinction both in
state and church. Considerably more than ten thousand dollars was
thereby raised, and with this sum the Bishop returned to America. Much
needed buildings were erected in Sewanee, and on the 18th of September,
1868, as Vice-Chancellor, the Bishop formally opened the Junior
Department of The University of the South. Thus after twelve years of
labor and anxiety, of disappointment and sorrow,--after the death of
Bishops Polk, Otey, Elliott, Rutledge and Cobbs,--all of them actively
interested in the project for building a Church University of the first
class in the South that would in some degree do for our country what the
Universities of Oxford and Cambridge have so well done for England and
the civilized world,--The University of the South began its work for God
and our land. That day has since been annually observed at Sewanee as
"Foundation Day."
Among the men who were early attracted to the work at Sewanee, were
Brigadier-General Josiah Gorgas, (who had been head of the Confederate
Ordnance Department, and became at first head-master of the Junior
Academic Department of the University, and was afterward made
Vice-Chancellor;) Brigadier-General F. A. Shoup, (who was now the Rev.
Professor Shoup, acting-chaplain and Professor of Mathematics;) General
E. Kirby-Smith; and Colonel F. T. Sevier, the Bishop's old friend of the
First Tennessee Regiment, who became Commandant of Cadets and
head-master of the Grammar School. For it was but natural that the
military feature of the school should commend itself to men who had just
passed through war and had seen the benefit of military discipline upon
life and character. These men felt that a higher duty awaited them at
the close of the war, than trying to make money,--that the training of
the youths of the land as Christian citizens was of paramount
importance,--and they gave themselves up to that educational work.
The splendid sacrifice of these and others set high the standard of the
University and invested it with a poetic beauty and a sacredness that
dwells there still. "Nowhere in the South," said Charles Dudley Warner,
in 1889, "and I might say, nowhere in the Republic, have I found
anything so hopeful as The University of the South." "Of the wisdom of
founding this University," said a visitor who spent the summer of 1878
at Sewanee, "no one would question after a single visit here. Its
highest development is yet to be obtained. Its present standard is equal
to the best, but its aims are to reach the highest and best culture
obtainable. It is slowly and surely reaching forward and satisfactorily
filling the measure of its allotted work.... It is difficult to explain
to one who has had no opportunity for a personal observation, how many
excellent formative influences are here combined.... Everything here
promotes a feeling of reverence and respect for sacred things. The
presence and influence of men of high standard in Church and state,
whose example is potent for good.... The book of nature is always open
here to the investigations of the geologist, the botanist, and the
student of natural history.... The physical education goes on with that
of the intellect; an invigorating atmosphere strengthens the
capacity.... The various gymnastic and military exercises give a clear
complexion, an elastic step and a noble carriage; and then mind and
body, acting in healthy unison, fill out the measure of a well rounded
man."
Bishop Quintard's ideals regarding the University to the upbuilding of
which he was giving the most valuable years of his life, were shadowed
forth in his words to the Convention of his Diocese in 1874, in
referring to the meeting of the Board of Trustees which he had attended
the previous year. "It is the aim and purpose of any true system of
education to draw out, to strengthen and to exhibit in active working,
certain powers which exist in man,--planted, indeed, by God, but latent
in man until they shall have been so drawn out. Education is not the
filling of a mind with so much knowledge, though, of course, it includes
the imparting of knowledge. As education is the drawing out of the
dormant powers of the whole man, it must in its highest sense be
commensurate with the whole man. The body must be trained by healthful
exercise, the mind or thinking power, must be drawn out and
strengthened, and finally a heart must be sanctified and a will subdued.
It is the aim and object of The University of the South to give to its
students every advantage,--physical, mental and moral; to develop a
harmonious and symmetrical character; to fit and prepare men for every
vocation in the life that now is, where we are strangers and sojourners;
and to teach all those things which a Christian ought to know and
believe to his soul's health. The momentous and concerning truth that
intellectual power unrestrained and unregulated by sound moral and
religious principle tends only to mischief and misery in our race, has
been in the educational systems of the age, almost overlooked."
The heroic struggle the University was making, began to attract admiring
attention. Gifts began to flow into it,--small as compared with those
that have been given to the cause of education in these later days, but
large when the impoverished condition of the South from which many of
them came, is taken into consideration. And not only was the continued
existence of the University guaranteed, but its ultimate success was
assured.
The responsibility and work devolving upon the Vice-Chancellor of a
University, even in its nascent stages, were too great a burden when
added to the cares of a large and exacting Diocese, and Bishop Quintard
resigned the office of Vice-Chancellor in 1868 in order that some one
else might be elected to fill that position. An effort to secure the
valuable services of General Robert E. Lee, for the University, resulted
in the following letter:--
WASHINGTON COLLEGE, LEXINGTON, VA., 23 Sept., 1868.
RT. REV'D. AND DEAR SIR,--Absence from Lexington has prevented me
until to-day from replying to your kind interesting letter of the
20th of August last. I have followed with deep interest the progress
of The University of the South from its origin, and my wishes for
its success have been as earnest as my veneration for its founders
and respect for its object have been sincere. Its prosperity will
always be to me a source of pleasure, and I trust that in the
Providence of God its career may be one of eminent benefit to our
country. That it has survived the adverse circumstances with which
it has been surrounded and has surmounted the difficulties with
which it has had to contend, is cause of great rejoicing to me, and
I am glad to learn that it has so fair a prospect of advancement and
usefulness.
I need not, then, assure you that I feel highly honored that its
Board of Trustees has thought of me for the office of
Vice-Chancellor, and I beg that you will present to them my fervent
thanks for their favorable consideration. They have, however, been
misinformed as to my feelings concerning my present position, and
even were they as represented, I could not now resign it with
propriety unless I saw it would be for the benefit of the college. I
must therefore respectfully decline your proposition, and ask you to
accept my grateful thanks for the frank and courteous manner in
which it has been tendered, as well as for the considerate measures
you proposed to promote my convenience and comfort.
I am, with great respect and highest regard, your friend and obt.
servt.,
R. E. LEE.
Rt. Rev'd. WM. M. GREEN, D.D., Chancellor of University of the
South.
Commodore Matthew Fontaine Maury was then elected by the Board, and when
Commodore Maury declined, the Bishop withdrew his resignation and
continued his work. In various parts of the South, in the North and in
England, he represented the needs of the University.
A trip made to New Orleans and Galveston in 1870 was in some respects
characteristic of the Bishop's appeals and of the breadth of scope of
the University as presented by him. In Galveston, the first person who
responded to his appeal was a Hebrew; one of the most active helpers was
a Presbyterian, and these two with a Churchman composed a committee to
work for The University of the South.
In 1871 the Academic Department was formally organized by the election
of five professors. In 1872, the Bishop again resigned the
Vice-Chancellorship and General Gorgas was elected to succeed him.
General Gorgas was in time succeeded by the Rev. Dr. Telfair Hodgson,
and he in turn by the Rev. Dr. Thomas F. Gailor. In 1893 the last named
was succeeded by Bishop Quintard's son-in-law, Dr. B. Lawton Wiggins, an
alumnus of The University of the South, and the preserver of what his
father-in-law had founded.
But the Bishop's interest in the University was not relaxed. Wherever he
went he represented the needs of the University as well as those of his
Diocese. In 1876, he attended a "matinee" at the London residence of
Lord Shrewsbury. Cards of invitation had been issued by the Earl and
Countess of Shrewsbury and about three hundred guests assembled. The
Lord Bishop of Winchester presided at this meeting, which was organized
in the interests of The University of the South--not so much to collect
money for the University as to make known in England the work the
University was doing. The Church in Scotland was represented by the
Primus and by the Bishop of Edinburgh; the Irish Church by the Bishop of
Derry and Raphoe and by the Bishop of Moray and Ross. A large number of
prominent clergymen were present. Addresses were made by the Bishops, by
Lord Shrewsbury, A. J. Beresford-Hope, M.P., and others.
In 1887 Bishop Green died and was succeeded in the Chancellorship by
Bishop Gregg of Texas. When the latter died in 1893, his logical
successor was Bishop Quintard, who, however, felt unfitted for the
office by reason of his infirmity of deafness which had come to him in
his later years. He accordingly stood aside and favored the election of
the Rt. Rev. Dr. Dudley, Bishop of Kentucky.
Bishop Quintard had seen buildings of permanent character grow up upon
the University domain,--built of Sewanee sand-stone, unsurpassed either
in quality or appearance as a building material. He had seen the
Theological Department opened in 1878, the Medical Department opened in
1892, and the Law Department in 1893. He had acted as consecrator at the
elevation of an alumnus of the University to the Episcopate of
Louisiana[A]. He had consecrated as his own coadjutor one whose life had
been closely connected with Sewanee and the University. He had ordained
to the priesthood many alumni. He had seen degrees conferred upon many
men who were to go out into the world and carry the influence of the
noble work the Bishop himself had done so much toward establishing. And
in many ways he had seen in the Church University, whose broad
foundations had been wisely laid by godly men who inaugurated the
enterprise, a visible advance made toward the ideals set for it by its
founders and re-founder.
Footnote A:
Five other alumni have been elevated to the Episcopate since the
Bishop's death.
The last Convention at which the Bishop presided, was held in Sewanee in
1897. The Bishop, shortly afterward, went to England to be present at
the Lambeth Conference held that year. He returned to Sewanee somewhat
refreshed in body and resumed the work of his Diocese. But further rest
became necessary and he went to Darien, Georgia, in search thereof.
There the end came on the 15th of February, 1898. His body was brought
back to Sewanee, lay for a time in the Otey Memorial Church, watched by
the clergy and the Sisters of St. Mary, and was thence taken to St.
Augustine's Chapel, where the service was said over it by the Bishops in
attendance. The University was not in session at the time, but the
University town was filled with sorrowing friends, representing the Army
of the late Confederate States, the clergy and laity of the Diocese, the
House of Bishops, and the alumni of the University. The Coadjutor Bishop
of Tennessee, now Bishop Quintard's successor, committed his body to the
ground in the Sewanee cemetery.
A movement was begun soon after the Bishop's death to endow a
professorship in the Theological Department of the University as a
memorial of him. Very fittingly, the new Grammar School Dormitory,
erected on the University domain in 1901, was named the "Quintard
Memorial." But the greatest monument and the most lasting one, to the
second Bishop of Tennessee, is and will be the University which he
re-founded and did much to build up.
THE END
APPENDIX
The following is a copy of the petition, with signatures attached, of
the Rock City Guard, which induced Dr. Quintard to suspend his parochial
work in Nashville, and enter the military service of the Confederacy.
We the undersigned members of the "Battalion of Rock City Guard" do
hereby respectfully invite the Rev. C. T. Quintard to accompany us
throughout the campaign as our friend and spiritual adviser, and we
hereby pledge ourselves to sustain him and attend regularly whatever
service he may institute, being willing to be guided by him.
F. J. Reamer, C. H. Stockell, John Gee Haily, W. Wills, E. C.
Leonhard, John B. Johnson, Robt. Gordon, B. M. Franklin, Nat
Hampton, jr., Jno. M. Pearl, Robert Swan, John W. McWhirter, John W.
Branch, D. W. Sumner, M. N. Brown, Joseph Freeman, J. C. March, R.
J. Howse, Jas. McManus, R. S. Bugg, E. W. Fariss, Douglas Lee, Sam
Robinson, F. I. Loiseau, V. L. Benton, Wm. T. Hefferman, James P.
Shockly, Wm. Morrow, Berry Morgan, Rowe Foote, R. R. Hightower, H.
B. Finn, Joseph A. Carney, D. J. Roberts, J. H. Hough, A. W. Harris,
I. M. Cockrill, R. A. Withers, R. W. Gillespie, J. H. Bankston,
Harry Ross, R. Darrington, T. J. Gattright, John K. Sloan, B. J.
McCarty, L. H. McLemore, A. J. Phillips, W. A. Mayo, R. H. Fiser,
James T. Gunn, Wm. A. Ellis, T. H. Atkeison, R. B. Rozell, R.
Cheatham, W. N. Johns, J. P. Shane, J. L. Cooke, Geo. A. Diggons, T.
O. Harris, Victor Vallette, D. G. Carter, J. W. Thomas, J. Clarke,
F. M. Geary, W. B. Ross, Wm. Baxter, J. T. Henderson, John W.
Barnes, James P. Kirkman, H. N. Stothart, D. K. Sanford, R. W.
Burke, James Carrigan, T. H. Griffin, W. P. Prichard, J. H. Allen,
P. Bartola, G. T. Hampton, F. H. Morgan, Wm. R. Elliston, jr., Wm.
H. Everett, T. B. Lanier, I. L. Smith, T. C. Lucas, W. P.
Wadlington, Jas. W. Nichol, Wm. B. Maney, John A. Murkin, jr., J.
Walker Coleman, Jo H. Sewell, G. E. Valette, Geo. M. Mace, Mason
Vannoy.
INDEX
Aberdeen, Miss., 124
Adams, Gen. John, 112-114
Adams, Maj. Nathan, 114, 123
Aiken, Gov. of S. C., 127
Anderson, Dr. H. M., 103
Anderson, Gen. S. R., 17, 19, 20, 39
Anderson, Lieut., 117
Annandale, Miss., 50, 51
Appomattox Court House, 143
Armstrong, Frank, 107
Ashby, Capt. Turner, 38
Ashwood, Tenn., 107, 115
Athens, Ga., 5
Atkinson, Bishop, 14
Atlanta, 72, 95-102, 115, 142-145
Augusta, Ga., 80, 99
Back Creek, Va., 16
Bainbridge, Ga., 123
Baird, Mr., 34
Bakewell, Rev. Mr., 125
Ballentine, Capt., 123
Ballentine, Mrs., 122
Bardstown, Ky., 56
Barnum, Mrs., 161
Barrow, Gen. Washington, 12, 136
Baskerville, Col., 127
Bate, Gen., 107
Bath, 37
Bath Alum Springs, 34
Battle, Col., 104, 105
"Beaufort," 47
Beaumont, Maj. E. B., 145
Beauregard, Gen. G. P. T., 104, 108
Beckwith, Bishop John W., 98, 105, 129
Beresford-Hope, Hon. A. J., 181
Bethune, Gen., 102
Big Sewell Mountain, 32, 33, 36
Blackwell, Capt., 114
"Blind Tom," 102
Bolivar, Tenn., 111
Bombay, Bishop of, 161
Bradford, Capt., 106, 107
Brady's Gate, 26
Bragg, Gen. Braxton, 55, 56, 64, 65, 67, 69, 70, 72, 77-80, 87, 88, 92,
95
Brentwood, 120
Bristol, 13
Brown, Gen. John C., 93, 107, 112, 115, 133-135
Brown, J. Rhodes, 65, 102, 103, 135
Buchanan, Capt., 46, 47
Buckner, Gen., 55
Buell, Gen., 56
Buist, Dr. J. R., 12, 27, 54, 64, 66, 117
Bullock, Capt., 37
Burke, Boykin & Co., 93
Butler, Capt. Jack, 27, 65
Butt, Lieut. Walter, 43
Cambridge University, 175
Canterbury, Archbishop of, 174
Capon Mountain, 37, 38
Carnes, Capt. W. W., 57, 58
Carnes Hospital, 103
Carter, Gen. John C, 112, 115-119
Chalmers, Gen., 55, 107
Chaplain's Creek, 60
Charleston, S. C., 14, 136
Chattanooga, 54, 55, 64, 67, 69, 88, 92, 95, 145, 146
Cheatham, Gen. B. F., 59, 70, 106, 107, 109, 122
Cheat Mountain, 19, 23, 28, 30
Cheat Pass, 19, 23
Chickamauga, 87-94, 110
Childress, Miss Bettie, 133, 134
Clare, Maj. William, 120
Clark, Rev. Mr., 80-82
Clayton, Gen., 124
Cleburne, Gen. Pat., 59, 93, 112, 113, 116
Clouston, William, 117
Cobb, Gen. Howell, 44, 136, 138, 144
Cobbs, Bishop, 175
Cockrill, Gen., 112, 117, 118
Cockrill, Sterling, 106
Columbia, S. C., 135
Columbia, Tenn., 23, 72, 108, 115-123, 164
Columbia Institute, 116
Columbus, Ga., 65, 102, 104, 131-145
Columbus, Miss., 106, 125-128
"Congress," 45-48
Cooper, Hon. Edmund, 80, 81
Corinth, Miss., 107
Cowan, Tenn., 87
Cross, Rev. Dr. Joseph, 59, 60
Crouch's, 19, 26
"Cumberland," 45, 46
Cumberland Gap, 64
Cumbrae, 161
Dalton, Ga., 96
Danville, Ky., 56
Darien, Ga., 182
Davis, Jefferson, 42, 58, 92, 95, 132, 133, 137, 143
Dawson, Col., 135
DeBow, James D. B., 127
Demopolis, Ala., 98, 105, 129
Derry and Raphoe, Bishop of, 180
Donelson, Gen., 17, 19, 24
Duck River, 108, 121, 123
Dudley, Bishop, 181
Duffie, Hon. George, 14
Dunlap, Gen., 104, 105, 118
Dunnington, Frank, 130
Duval, Maj., 17
Edinburgh, Bishop of, 180
Edgefield, Tenn., 6
Edrai, 31
Edward VII, 162
Eggleston, Lieut. J. R., 46
Elk River, 124
Elliott, Bishop, 73-80, 91, 96-99, 101-105, 111, 128, 171, 175
Ely, Hon. Alfred, 15
Elzy, Gen., 127
Ewell, Col., 99
Fairbanks, Maj. George R., 165, 166, 169, 172
"Felix Old Boy," 16
Field, Capt., 23
Finley, Gen., 138
Fitzhugh, Col., 51
Flournoy, Capt. William, 116
Floyd, Gen. J. B., 32
Foard, Dr., 120
Forney, Gen., 50
Forrest, Gen., 119, 122, 123
Fort Donelson, 40
Foster, Capt., 32
Foster, Dr., 128
Foundation Day, 175
Franklin, Tenn., 28, 111, 112-124
Freemantle, Lt.-Col., 76, 77
Freese, Lieut. H. H., 139, 140
Frierson, Capt., 128
Fulford, Bishop, 150
Fulford Hall, 169, 170
Fulton, Col., 17
Gailor, Bishop, 180-182
Gale, Col. W. D., 54
Galveston, 179
Gatewoods, 17
Gibson, Capt. Thomas, 113, 114
Gibson, Gen., 117
Gist, Gen., 112, 115
Gordon, Gen. George, 112, 115
Gordonsville, 42
Gorgas, Gen. Josiah, 175, 180
Gosling, William, 69, 73
Gracie, Gen. Archibald, 89
Granberry, Gen., 112, 115
Grant, Gen., 95, 142
Gray Sulphur Springs, 52
Green, Bishop, 99, 106, 125-128, 138, 171, 173, 179, 181
Green, Lieut., 138
Green, Maj. John, 109
Green, Surgeon, 73
Greenbrier Bridge, 34
Green River, 55
Greensboro, Ala., 129
Gregg, Bishop, 181
Griffin, Ga., 133, 134
Hadley, Miss Mary, 120
Hages, Miss, 121
Hamilton Place, 107, 116, 121
Hampton, Maj. Henry, 96
Hampton, Mrs. Wade, 14
Hampton Roads, 49
Hancock, Md., 39
Hanson, Gen., 67
Hardee, Gen., 76, 77, 96, 97
Harlow, Rev. W. D., 146
Harris, Gov., 11, 55, 83, 87, 107, 111, 118, 120, 122, 123
Harris, Rev. George C., 12
Harrodsburg, 56, 61
Harvie, Col., 121
Hatton, Col., 25
Hawks, Rev. Mr., 102, 132, 133
Hawks, Miss Sallie C., 132
Helm, Gen., 89
Henry, Capt. Tom, 116, 120
Hickey, Capt. John M., 117
Hill, Hon. Ben, 143, 144
Hillsboro, Va., 34
Hodge, Capt., 141
Hodgson, Rev. Dr. Telfair, 180
Hood, Gen., 90, 96-100, 104, 107, 108, 111, 118, 121-126, 132
Hopkins, Bishop, 150
Hot Springs, Va., 32-34
House, Bryant, 66
House, Lieut. John, 28
Hoxton, Maj., 73, 109, 128
Hudson, Capt., 127
Huger, Gen., 44
Huger, Willie, 67, 69
Hunter, Mr., 131
Huntersville, Va., 16, 17, 34, 35
Huttonville, 19
Hurt, Col., 129
Iodine Springs, 52
Jack, Maj., 85, 86
Jackson, Miss., 50
Jackson, Gen. H. R., 19, 24
Jackson, Gen. T. J., (Stonewall) 1, 36-40, 59
Johnson, Gen. Bushrod, 59
Johnson, Gov., (President) 81, 136
Johnston, Gen. Albert Sidney, 41, 53
Johnston, Capt., 85
Johnston, Gen. Joseph E., 40, 41, 69, 70, 95-97, 102, 126, 134
Johnstone, Mrs., 50
Jones, Capt. Ap Catesby, 48, 130
Jones, Capt., 107
Jones, Lt.-Col., 118, 119
Jones, Hon. Thomas, 123
Jones, Mrs. Thomas, 124
Keble College, Oxford, 161
Kelly, Capt., 120, 129
King, Capt. Thomas Edward, 12, 89, 90
Kingston, Ga., 145, 146
Kirby-Smith, Gen., 56, 62-64, 175
Knight, Rev. Dr. F. L., 168
Knoxville, Tenn., 5, 13, 41, 152
Lamb's Ferry, 123
Lambeth Conference, 182
Lambeth Palace, 163
Latané, Rev. James A., 16, 33
Lay, Bishop, 99, 100
Lay, Capt. J. F., 50
Lee and Gordon's Mills, 88
Lee, Fitzhugh, 29
Lee, Gen. Robert E., 1, 18, 19, 29-33, 108, 109, 143, 178, 179
Leicester, Bishop of, 103
Letcher, Gov. John, 40
Le Vert, Madame, 50
Lewisburg, 35
Liddell, Gen., 77, 93
Lincoln, President, 10, 11, 131, 136, 137, 143
London, 160
Long, Capt., 116
Longstreet, 88, 89
Lookout Mountain, 92
Looney, Maj., 12, 23, 27, 31, 32
Loring, Gen. W. W., 18, 19, 29, 34-44, 49-54
Louisville, 56
Loyall, Benj., 43
Lynchburg, Va., 13
Lytle, Col., 81
Macon, Ga., 93, 99, 107, 138, 139, 142, 145
Macon, Miss., 106
Mallory, Hon. Mr., 143, 144
Manassas, 41, 42, 90
Manchester, Duke of, 162
Maney, Gen. George, 11, 18, 20, 57, 59, 74, 128
Manigault, Gen., 74, 112, 116, 121
Manners, Lord John, 174
Marietta, Ga., 91, 97
Markham, Rev. Mr., 107
Marks, Col., 67
Marsh, Lieut. John, 91, 92, 111, 116, 122
Martin, Gen., 81
Mary Adelaide, 160
Mason, Maj., 98
Maury, Com. M. F., 179
Mayrant, Capt., 107
McCook, Gen., 56, 88, 141
McGavock, Col. John, 113
McGuire, Mrs. Judith W., 43
McKinney, Adjt., 116
Memphis, Tenn., 5, 6, 58,127, 152, 169
Meredith, Rev. Mr., 36
Meridian, Miss., 105, 128, 129
Merrick, Rev. Dr. John A., 165, 166
Merrill, Dr. Ayres P., 5
Merrill, Lieut., 23
"Merrimac," 44-48
Mines, John Flavel, 15
"Minnesota," 48
Missionary Ridge, 92
Mitchell, Rev. Mr., 131
Mobile, 50, 116
"Monitor," 45-49
Montgomery, Ala., 50, 104, 131, 132, 137, 171
Moray and Ross, Bishop of, 181
Morerod, Capt. Ralph, 133
Morgan, Rev. Dr., 147
Moore, Maj. William E., 120, 121
Morris, Rev. Thomas A., 166
Mott, Dr. Valentine, 5
Mount Pleasant, Tenn., 107
Mumfordville, Ky., 55
Murfreesboro, Tenn., 23, 58, 64-69, 110
Myer, Col., 51
Mylne, Bishop, 161
Narrows, 51
Nashville, Tenn., 6, 8, 10, 11, 26, 33, 56, 63, 67, 68, 80, 108, 109,
111, 120-122, 136, 145, 146-148, 152, 164
"Nellie Peters' Pocket Handkerchief," 101
Nelson, Earl, 174
New Orleans, La., 171, 179
Newport News, 45
New River, Va., 51
New York, 5, 147
Nichol, Dr. William, 12
Noble, Samuel, 140-142
Norfolk, Va., 42-50
Okalona, Miss., 106
"Old Blizzard," 53
Order of Southern Cross, 92, 94
Otey, Bishop, 50, 126, 148, 154, 165, 169, 175
Otey Hall, 169, 171
Overton, John, 118, 120
Oxford, 160, 175
Oxford, Bishop of, 174
Parkersburg Pike, 22, 23
Parkhurst, Gen., 146, 147
Parsons, Col. C. C., 57, 58
Patterson, Lt.-Col., 61
Pendleton, Rev. William Nelson, 1, 14
Perryville, 50-63, 64, 66, 110
Peterborough, Bishop of, 163
Peterkin, Rev. Mr., 14, 15
Peters, Maj. Thomas, 105
Peters, Richard, 143, 145
Peter's Mountain, 51
Philadelphia, 145, 148, 149
Phillips, Dr., 107
Phillips, Mr., 131
Pierce, Bishop, 50
Pikeville, Tenn., 54
Pilcher, Capt. Matt., 116, 118
Pinckney, Rev. Dr., 16
Pise, Rev. Dr., 108, 116, 119, 121, 148, 164
Polk, Bishop and Gen., 1, 54, 57, 61, 62, 65, 67, 69-73, 76, 77, 83,
87, 92, 93, 96-98, 101, 105, 128, 164, 165, 170, 175
Polk, Dr. William M., 71
Polk, Gen. Lucius, 76, 101, 108, 116, 121
Polk Hospital, 103
Polk, Mrs. William, 116
Porcher, Capt., 47
Porter, Capt. Alexander, 129
Porter, Col., 73, 74
Porter, Gov. James D., 111
Porter, Rev. A. Toomer, 14
Port Hope, Canada, 158
Portsmouth, Va., 45
Prince of Wales, 162
Prince, Maj., 116, 121
Pulaski, Tenn., 23, 114, 122, 135
Quarles, Gen., 106, 112, 116-118
Quintard Hospital, 65
Quintard, Isaac, 4
Quintard Memorial, 183
Rains, Gen. James E., 61
Ramsey, John C, 125
Randolph, Tenn., 5
Ray, Col., 104, 105, 120
Renick, Dr., 34
Rennick, Mr., 34
Reynolds, Gen., 99
Rice, Col., 120, 123, 129
Richmond, Col. W. B., 54, 89
Richmond, Va., 13, 14, 35, 41, 67, 95, 102, 136, 137
Roberts, Albert, 105
Robertson, Gen. Felix H., 135
Rock City Guard, 6, 10-12, 19, 26, 61, 120
Roddy, Gen., 124
Rome, Ga., 33, 51, 65, 72
Romney, 38-41
Rosecrans, Gen., 23, 32, 36, 65, 67, 74, 81, 82, 87, 92
Ruggles, Gen., 99
Rust, Gen., 19
Rutherford Hill, 122
Rutledge, Bishop, 175
Salt Sulphur Springs, 51, 52
Sass, Jacob K., 97, 135
Saunders, Maj., 110
Saunders, Surgeon D. D., 91
Schwrar, Rev. John M., 125-127
Scott, Dr., 104
Scott, Gen., 112
Selma, Ala., 103, 105, 130, 136, 140
Sevier, Col. F. T., 12, 23, 27, 175
Sewanee, 62, 63, 87, 101, 154-158, 164-183
Seward, W. H., 131
Shelbyville, Tenn., 67-87
Sherman, Gen. W. T., 70, 107, 108
Shoup, Gen. F. A., 101, 175
Shrewsbury, Earl and Countess of, 180
Shute, Capt., 106
Smith, Capt. John S., 132
Smith, Gen. A. J., 132
Smith, Gen. G. W., 98
Smith, Gen. Preston, 89, 90
Smith, Lieut., 73
Snowden, R. B., 12
Sparta, Tenn., 54
Spence, Capt., 81, 85
Spotswood, Lieut., 45
Springfield, 56
Spring Hill, 109-111, 121
Stamford, Conn., 4
Stanford, Dr. Frank, 81, 132
Stanford, Capt., 85
Stanley, Dean, 161
Stanley, Gen., 109
Staunton, Va., 16, 33, 35, 36, 41
St. Augustine, Fla., 53
St. Louis, Mo., 136, 158
St. Luke's, Atlanta, 95-101
Stephens, Alexander H., 131
Stepleton, Capt., 116
Stevens, Bishop, 5
Stevenson, Ala., 65
Stewart, Gen. A. P., 109, 115
Stewart, John, 14, 15
Stoke-upon-Trent, 161
Strahl, Gen. O. F., 82, 84, 85, 96, 97, 111, 112, 115, 122
Strasburg, 42
Stribling, Dr. and Mrs., 33, 35
Stuart, Hon. A. H. 36
Sullivan, Mrs., 18
Tait, Archbishop, 174
Tattnall, Commodore, 43, 49
Tattnall, John, 43, 49
Taylor, Gen., 126
Taylor, Tazewell, 43
Thicknesse, Bishop, 163
Thomas, Gen., 88, 89, 143
Ticknor, Rev. Mr., 105
Tomlinson, William, 166
Tremlett, Rev. F. W., 174
Tullahoma, 69, 87
Tuscumbia, Ala., 124
Unionville, S. C., 135
University of the South, 62, 63, 101, 158, 164-183
University Place, 166
Vallandigham, C. L., 75, 76
Valley Mountain, 13, 17, 19, 27, 31
Van Leer, Joe, 20-26, 31
Vaught, Mr., 121
Vaulx, Maj., 129
"Virginia," 44-49
Von Zinken, Leon, 138
Walden's Ridge, 54, 55
Walters, Col., 87
Walthall, Gen., 107
Warm Springs, 34
Warner, Charles Dudley, 176
Warner, Gen., 133
Wartrace, 72, 76, 77, 79
Washington, Col. J. A., 29, 30
Watterson, Henry, 104
Watts, Gov. of Ala., 131
Webb, Col., 81
Wellesley, Rev. Dr., 161
West, Douglas, 98
Westminster Abbey, 161, 162
West Point, Miss., 106
West Point, N. Y., 57, 58, 71, 89, 128, 145
Wheeler, Col., 16
Wheeler, Gen. Joseph, 68, 81
White Sulphur Springs, 32, 33, 35
Whitfield, Needham, 124
Wickham, Capt., 104-107
Wiggins, Dr. B. L., 180
Wilder, Gen., 55
Wilmer, Bishop, 54, 105, 129, 150
Wilson, Gen. James H., 138, 140, 141, 145
Winchester, Bishop of, 180
Winchester, Tenn., 165, 168
Winchester, Va., 36, 38-42, 87
Winder, Gen., 15
Windsor, Eng., 161
Wingfield, Bishop, 45, 48
Winslow, Gen., 141
Winter, Maj., 106
Wood, Dr. James R., 5
Wood, Gen., 44, 76, 77
Woolridge, Lieut., 61
Wright, Gen., 98
Yates, Capt., 106
Yeatman, Col. Harry, 54, 72, 73, 76, 130, 146
Yerger, Mrs. George, 50
York, Archbishop of, 174
Young, Col., 107
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