Ashley Davis Hurt Papers 1864-1898

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Ashley Davis Hurt Papers 1864-1898

http://www.library.ufl.edu/spec/archome/MS64.htm

Papers related to the Civil War, the Louisville Male High School and the Florida Agricultural College, as well as the College's placement in Lake City or Tallahassee.

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Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

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Florida. State Agricultural College

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Confederate States of America. Navy

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Built in Philadelphia as the Habana, the CSS Sumter was originally used as a blockade runner in New Orleans. In 1861, she was purchased for use by the Confederate Government. Under the command of Raphael Semmes, she captured a number of Union flag merchant ships off the coasts of Cuba and South America, as well as other locations in the western hemisphere. When her boilers became unfit for use and repairs and supplies could not be obtained, she was sold at public auction at Gibraltar on December...

Louisville Male High School (Louisville, Ky.)

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Hurt, Ashley Davis, -1898

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Ashley D. Hurt was the first president of the Florida Agricultural College at Lake City. Hurt was born in Petersburg, Virginia, and was educated at the University of Virginia. During the Civil War he served in the Confederate Navy. After the war, Hurt continued his studies at Gottingen and earned a master's degree in Greek. He served briefly as principal of the Louisville Male High School before taking the post at Lake City in 1884. His tenure at Lake City was also short. He accepted the positio...