Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. and Second Bishop of Tennessee

The following is a biography of Charles Todd Quintard, focusing on his involvement during the American Civil War. Quintard was an American physician and clergyman who became the second bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee and the first Vice-Chancellor of the University of the South. During the American Civil War, Quintard joined the Rock City Guards, a Nashville militia, as a chaplain. He was subsequently nominated by soldiers in the Confederate 1st Tennessee Infantry Regiment, to serve as their chaplain. He accepted this invitation, despite his initial pro-Union stance, and also served as a regimental surgeon. Informally he was known as the Chaplain of the Confederacy.