Persistence through Peril: Episodes of College Life and Academic Endurance in the Civil War South
Persistence through Peril: Episodes of College Life and Academic Endurance in the Civil War South
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Abstract
Literature that recounts the history of nineteenth-century Southern higher education includes Civil War-related issues as part of a larger, longitudinal narrative. In cases concerning the war years (1861-1865), existing publications focus on the closure, destruction, and reformation of regional colleges and universities due to student enlistment, the burning of buildings by Union troops, campus conversions to military barracks or army hospitals, etc. Few, however, focus completely on the Civil War South—even fewer provide detailed case examples that extol the persistence of some Southern colleges during the fray. Though most Southern institutions of higher education did close during the war, a handful of academies remained open, weathering the storm and providing instruction to remaining students. While related literature provides interesting insights regarding college student military service, the role some professors played as Confederate officers, and the reemergence of Southern higher education following the war, this text showcases how some colleges and universities remained open while battles rages in nearby fields, towns, and ports via in-depth case “episodes” of eleven Southern institutions of higher education: South Carolina Military Academy (The Citadel), Wofford College, Mississippi College, Spring Hill College, Tuskegee Female College, (present-day Huntingdon College), Mercer University, Wesleyan College, the University of Virginia, the Virginia Military Institute, the University of North Carolina, and Trinity College (now known as Duke University). This volume provides pertinent information that underscores events that occurred at each institutional site prior to, during, and after the deadliest internal conflict in American history.
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Persistence through Peril
R. Eric Platt andHolly A Foster
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One
The South Carolina Military Academy During The Civil War: Training Ground For The Confederacy
Christian K. Anderson
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“With the Pen of History, Write Carolina’s Name”: Wofford College and the Challenges of War
Webb Rhonda Kemp
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Mississippi College and the Mississippi College Rifles: A Campus at War and Death on the Battlefield
David E. Taylor and others
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“Rise Southerners, Rise! ’Tis the Voice of War!”: Confederate Patriotism and the Society of Jesus at Spring Hill College
R. Eric Platt andDonavan L. Johnson
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Tuskegee Female College and the Confederacy: “Yankees! Yankees! Yankees! Every Way You Turn”
Courtney L. Robinson andZachary A. Turner
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Mercer University, the Georgia Baptist Convention, and the American Civil War
Mangrum Sarah and others
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“So Firm a Hold”: Civil War Resiliency at Wesleyan Female College
Lauren Yarnell Bradshaw andBennett Marcia
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Witness to Civil War Student Life and Military Strife: The University of Virginia as College and Army Hospital
Holly A. Foster andR. Eric Platt
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Confederate Compatriot: The Virginia Military Institute and the Vicissitudes of War
Michael M. Wallace
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A “Charitable Institution”: The University of North Carolina in the Era of the Civil War
Don Holmes
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Trinity College: Duke University’s Persistence In Civil War Years
Lassabe Lauren
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End Matter
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