| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction: persistence through peril / R. Eric Platt and Holly A. Foster -- The South Carolina Military Academy during the Civil War: training ground for the Confederacy / Christian K. Anderson -- "With the pen of history, write Carolina's name": Wofford College and the challenges of war / Rhonda Kemp Webb -- Mississippi College and the Mississippi College Rifles: a campus at war and death on the battlefield / David E. Taylor, Holly A. Foster, and R. Eric Platt -- "Rise southerners, rise! 'tis the voice of war!": Confederate patriotism and the Society of Jesus at Spring HIll College / R. Eric Platt and Donavan L. Johnson -- Tuskegee Female College and the Confederacy: "yankees! yankees! yankees! every way you turn" / Courtney L. Robinson and Zachary A. Turner -- Mercer University, the Georgia Baptist Convention, and the American Civil War / Sarah Mangrum, Tiffany Greer, and Holly A. Foster -- "So firm a hold": Civil War resiliency at Wesleyan Female College / Lauren Yarnell Bradshaw and Marcia Bennett -- Witness to Civil War student life and military strife: the University of Virginia as college and army hospital / Holly A. Foster and R. Eric Platt -- Confederate compatriot: the Virginia Military Institute and the vicissitudes of war / Michael M. Wallace -- A "charitable institution": the University of North Carolina in the era of the Civil War / Don Holmes -- Trinity College: Civil War comes to Duke University / Lauren Lassabe |
| Summary |
"Contributions by Christian K. Anderson, Marcia Bennett, Lauren Yarnell Bradshaw, Holly A. Foster, Tiffany Greer, Don Holmes, Donavan L. Johnson, Lauren Lassabe, Sarah Mangrum, R. Eric Platt, Courtney L. Robinson, David E. Taylor, Zachary A. Turner, Michael M. Wallace, and Rhonda Kemp Webb. To date, most texts regarding higher education in the Civil War South focus on the widespread closure of academies. In contrast, Persistence through Peril: Episodes of College Life and Academic Endurance in the Civil War South brings to life several case histories of southern colleges and universities that persisted through the perilous war years. Contributors tell these stories via the lived experiences of students, community members, professors, and administrators as they strove to keep their institutions going. Despite the large-scale cessation of many southern academies due to student military enlistment, resource depletion, and campus destruction, some institutions remained open for the majority or entirety of the war. These institutions-"The Citadel" South Carolina Military Academy, Mercer University, Mississippi College, the University of North Carolina, Spring Hill College, Trinity College of Duke University, Tuskegee Female College, the University of Virginia, the Virginia Military Institute, Wesleyan Female College, and Wofford College-continued to operate despite low student numbers, encumbered resources, and faculty ranks stripped bare by conscription or voluntary enlistment. This volume considers academic and organizational perseverance via chapter "episodes" that highlight the daily operations, struggles, and successes of select southern institutions. Through detailed archival research, the essays illustrate how some southern colleges and universities endured the deadliest internal conflict in US history"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Education, Higher -- Southern States -- 19th century
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HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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Education, Higher
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140205
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| Subject |
Southern States
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Platt, R. Eric, 1981- editor.
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Foster, Holly A., editor
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| LC no. |
2021032571 |
| ISBN |
9781496835079 |
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1496835077 |
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9781496835055 |
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1496835050 |
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1496835026 |
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9781496835062 |
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1496835069 |
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9781496835024 |
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