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Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. and Second Bishop of Tennessee / Being His Story of the War (1861-1865)

Chapter 2: PREFACE
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A military chaplain's memoir traces his entry into Confederate service, his dual role as pastor and physician, and eyewitness accounts of campaigns, battles, and the army's spiritual life. The narrative discusses the duties and influence of regimental chaplains, moments of pastoral care and conversions among soldiers, and vividly recalls specific campaigns and the war's disintegration. Later chapters shift to postwar years, detailing his long episcopate, efforts to rebuild the church, advocacy for Christian education in Tennessee, and active involvement in the establishment and support of the University of the South at Sewanee.

PREFACE

The chapters of this volume containing the Memoirs of the war were written by Bishop Quintard about the year 1896 and are to be read with that date in mind. The work of the editor thereon has been devoted to bringing them into conformity with a plan agreed upon in personal interviews with Bishop Quintard about that time.

In the first and in the last two chapters of the book the editor has drawn freely, even to the extent of transcribing entire sentences and paragraphs, upon the Bishop's own addresses in the Diocesan Journals of Tennessee; upon Memorial Addresses by his successor, the Rt. Rev. Dr. Gailor; upon material used in some of the chapters of the Editor's "History of the Church in the Diocese of Tennessee;" and upon documents preserved in the archives of The University of the South.

Thanks are due to the Rev. Bartow B. Ramage, the Rev. Rowland Hale and Mr. George E. Purvis, among others, for valuable assistance in the original preparation of the Memoirs.

A. H. N.

Sewanee, Tennessee,

May, 1905.