JWB and God

[Jim Garrett]

As stated earlier, JWB was brought up to respect religions of all kinds. He was sent to The Milton Academy, which was run by a Quaker. By at least one account, he left for disciplinary reasons. He later attended St. Timothy's Academy. The headmaster was Rev. Libertus Van Bokkelen (my avatar) and the school baptized all students in the Episcopal faith. One of his teachers there was Henry Onderdonk, son of an Episcopal priest who went almost all the way through seminary and for some reason, never completed his religious education. Onderdonk went on to resurrect a closed Episcopal college for the arch diocese of Maryland in 1867. The Episcopal church was the unofficial church of the Confederacy with much of the high command devote Episcopalians.