Charles Quintard, an opponent of racism and classism, was the first new Episcopal Bishop after the Civil War, and his election in 1867 spurred reconciliation between the Northern and Southern factions. There was never a formal split between the two, such as happened in Protestant denominations; though a Confederate Episcopal Church was announced and did publish a Prayer Book, it was only a reprint of the Standard Book with a new cover page. The Southern Church never met in convention, while the Northern Church continued to meet; each time the clerk would call the roll, mark the Southern dioceses absent, and everyone pretended the Southerners meant to come but just couldn’t make it. The war finally ended and Tennessee elected Quintard, a physician and Union man who had served as surgeon and chaplain of the Confederate 1st Tennessee Regiment, just a month before the General Convention of 1867, throwing his “consents” to that body. They voted him in, the clerk announced that all dioceses were present and accounted for, and The Episcopal Church was reunited. (Brady-Handy Studio)
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