CHAPTER XVI
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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