"REV TELFAIR HODGSON, D. D., of the Protestant Episcopal Church, was born in Columbia, Virginia, March 14, 1840. He graduated at the College of New Jersey at Princeton, N. J., in 1859. He studied theology in the General Seminary, New York, 1860; entered the Confederate Army in 1861. In 1863 he was ordained to the lower, order of the ministry (the Diaconate) at Savannah, Ga., and to the priesthood at Columbus, Ga., in 1864. From 1866 to 1869 he had charge of St. Mary's Church, Keyport, N. J.; then, in 1869-70, lie traveled in Europe, returning to Keyport, N. J., in 1871. He was professor of philosophy at the University of Alabama 1872-73, and was assistant in Christ Church, Baltimore, Md., 1874. From 1874 to 1878 he was rector of Trinity Church, Hoboken, N. J. In 1878 he took the chair of vice-chancellor of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., and is still in that office, much of the grand success of that institution being due to him. While at Keyport, N. J., Mr. Hodgson was president of the New York & Freehold Railroad Company and of the Matawan & Keyport Gas Light Company. Dr. Hodgson has published several sermons, reports and fugitive pamphlets. He is a man of high intellectual powers and a vigilant worker. "
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"The Civil War broke into his theological studies at the General Seminary, N.Y., and he served with the "Richmond Zouaves" and other regiments. Once not far from Sewanee he was caught with other Confederates in a barn and had to figh of desperately an attack by Federals... Telfair Hodgson and Frances Glen Potter were married by Bishop Stephen Elliott on Easter Day, 1865, in Christ Church, Macon, Ga. at the early communion service. After service the groom had to conduct the burial of some Confederate soldiers! -MEN WHO MADE SEWANEE, Moultrie Guerry, 1932, and Chitty's, 1982

" The Richmond Zouaves. - Sergeant Telfair Hodgson, of the Richmond Zouaves, lately arrived from the Northwestern portion of the State, where his command is stationed, is now in Richmond . Mr. H., desiring to enlarge his company, has connected recruiting with the other business that brought him to the city, and is now to be seen at Messrss. Hughes, Caldwell & Co.’s, Pearl street , below Main , where he will give all the information that may be desired by those who wish to connect themselves with the Zouaves. All able-bodied men in and out of Richmond are invited to come forward and give in their names. We insert this in our paper from the fact that there are many advantages in this company which it is beyond the power of other companies to offer. It holds the post of honor in its regiment; it is under the command of one of the most able officers in the C. S. A., and it is stationed in a county where health is the only condition of mankind. Ames ’ Springfield musket, of 1858, with spring bayonet, uniforms free, and $23 bounty is given each recruit. The Zouaves are commanded by a graduate of the V. M. I., thoroughly acquainted with his business."
-The Richmond Dispatch, 7/20/1861, p. 2,
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