Biographical material relating to graduates of the United States Military Academy who were born in the state of South Carolina : [1961] ; typescript.

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Biographical material relating to graduates of the United States Military Academy who were born in the state of South Carolina : [1961] ; typescript.

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Brief entries re natives of S.C. who attended the USMA at West Point, N.Y. Biographical sketches [ca. 1961?] of Henry Martyn Robert (1837-1923), Class of 1857, general in U.S. Army and author of Robert's Rules of Order; David Du Bose Gaillard (1859-1913), Class of 1884, United States. Regiment of Engineers, 3d; and Benjamin F. Sloan (1836-1923), Class of 1860, professor and president of USC. Includes brief mention of other alumni from S.C.: George Trescott, class of 1813; Henry Middleton, class of 1815; and Robert Francis W. Allston, class of 1821.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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