Charles Todd Quintard
Doctor of Divinity 1878
Quintard was another former Confederate chaplain honored in 1878. He was the Bishop of Tennessee and Sewanee’s first Vice-Chancellor as well as serving on the University’s Board of Trustees. Quintard defended the religiosity of the Confederacy, demonstrating the Episcopal Church’s relationship to the Lost Cause:
"Writers upon the late Civil War have never done full justice to the high religious character of the majority of those who composed the Confederate government and its army, and the high religious principles which inspired them. Not only was the conviction of conscience clear in the Southern soldiers, that they were right in waging war against the Federal government, but the people of the South looked upon their cause as a holy one..."
-Charles Todd Quintard, Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. and Second Bishop of Tennessee, Being His Story of the War (1861-1865)
