Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. and Second Bishop of Tennessee: The Memoir and Civil War Diary of Charles Todd Quintard

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LSU Press, 01.04.2003 - 285 Seiten

Trained as a physician and ordained an Episcopal priest, Charles Todd Quintard (1824--1898) was a remarkable man by the standard of any generation. Born, raised, and educated in the North, he migrated to the South to pursue a medical career but was inspired by the bishop of Tennessee to serve the church. When Tennessee seceded from the Union in May 1861, Quintard joined the Confederate 1st Tennessee Infantry Regiment as its chaplain and during the maelstrom of the Civil War kept a diary of his experiences. He later penned a memoir, which was published posthumously in 1905.
Sam Davis Elliott combines a previously unpublished portion of the diary with Quintard's memoir in Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. and Second Bishop of Tennessee. Quintard offers an unusual perspective and insightful observations gained from ministering to soldiers and civilians as both a priest and a physician. With thoughtful editing and annotating, Quintard's writings provide a valuable window into the high command of the Army of Tennessee at some of its more critical junctures and substantial detail of the last eight months of the war in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia.
Quintard was present during the early fighting in Virginia, marched into Kentucky with Braxton Bragg, attended to the wounded at Murfreesboro and Chickamauga, witnessed two Confederate retreats from Middle Tennessee, and watched the Federal armies overrun the Deep South in the spring of 1865. He met such diverse personages as Robert E. Lee and Federal Major General James H. Wilson; prayed with Bragg, Leonidas Polk, and John Bell Hood; shared a bed once with Nathan Bedford Forrest; and performed the sad duty of conducting the funerals of Patrick Cleburne and others killed at Franklin, Tennessee. Throughout his military service, he organized hospitals and relief efforts, filled in as a parish priest, and served as chaplain at large of the Army of Tennessee.
After the war, Quintard became the prime mover in the revival of Leonidas Polk's dream of an Episcopal Church--sponsored University of the South, and in 1865 he was consecrated bishop of Tennessee, a position he held until his death. These interesting and lively war-year remembrances of one of the Confederacy's most exceptional characters shed new light on the little-known western theater's military, civilian, and religious fronts.

 

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Doctor Quintard Chaplain C S A and Second Bishop of Tennessee
1
Preface to the 1905 Edition
7
Personal NarrativeThe Beginning of the War and Valley Mountain
14
Personal NarrativeBig Sewell Mountain Winchester and Romney
31
Personal NarrativeNorfolk
40
Personal NarrativePerryville
46
Personal NarrativeMurfreesboro
58
Personal NarrativeShelbyville
62
Personal Narrative Columbus Georgia and the Journey into Tennessee
89
Personal NarrativeFranklin
99
Personal NarrativeThe Crumbling of the Confederacy
110
Personal NarrativeThe Close of the War
125
Editors Introduction to the Diary
159
Darkest of All Decembers December 1December 31 1864
187
The Dark Days of the Revolution January 1February
210
The Affairs of the Confederacy Have Come to Naught
246

Personal NarrativeA Dramatic Episode
73
Personal NarrativeChickamauga
76
Personal NarrativeAtlanta
83

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Autoren-Profil (2003)

Sam Davis Elliott is the author of Soldier of Tennessee: General Alexander P. Stewart and the Civil War in the West and a practicing attorney in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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