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An amusing incident occurred at this service. A worshipping
the congregation had never before seen a minister in his ministerial
robes. When Dr. Quintard got up into the judge's stand in the
Court House and began his service, a respectable, honest old
shoemaker who had gone to the service was seen to get up and motion
to his daughter and leave the house. When asked, after the service,
why he did so, his reply was, that although he was ignorant and had
never seen much of the world and didn't know much, that his children
had been too well raised to see a man preach in his night clothes.

Soon after this time, the first class was confirmed by
Dr. Quintard in Winchester. The hidebound Puritanical blue stocking
ideas of that day were very much more pronounced than they are
now. Dr. James R. Graves, one of the leading Baptist divines of
that day, publisher of the Baptist Reflector, and a man who had
the great controversy with Parson Brownlow, heard of Bishop
Quintard's doctrinal sermon as he called it, and at once advertised
the fact extensively that on a certain Sunday he would reply to
Dr. Quintard's sermon. An immense audience was assembled in the
Mary Sharp College at Winchester, which was then conducted by his
brother, Rev. Z. C. Graces as a Baptist Female School. Dr. Graves
spoke four hours and ten minutes, making a very violent and
denunciatory speech, to which Dr. Quintard paid no attention, and
there the incident dropped.

After the close of the Civil War, I became over of the
Sewanee Mines and commenced the work of rebuilding and rehabilitating
it's property, and right here I went to bring charge
of larceny against the University of the South. One of the
first things I did was to attempt to get the name of Tracy City
changed to Sewanee, for the reason that it had been chartered as
the Sewanee Mining Company - the coal had been named Sewanee Coal,
and the mines were known as the Sewanee Mines, and we thought,
very properly, that the name of the place should be Sewanee.
When we applied to the Post Office Department for a change of the
name from Tracy City to Sewanee, we were advised that there was already one Sewanee in Tennessee, and that we could not get the