University of Virginia students' letter to the editors of the Exchange [manuscript], 1861 March 22.

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University of Virginia students' letter to the editors of the Exchange [manuscript], 1861 March 22.

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A letter from "The sons of Virginia & of Maryland [who?] are true to the South" describes the raising of a flag of the Southern Confederacy over the Rotunda on 15 March 1861 by a group known as the Carr's Hill boys." The flag was ordered down by a sympathetic Professor Bledsoe as it was illegal to fly it over state property. The writers then describe a grand flag raising at one of the boarding houses the following Monday, complete with a little girl dressed as the Goddess of Liberty and a salute of seven rounds by the Southern Guard and the playing of "Dixie." Randolph H. McKim describes himself as one of the seven in his memoirs "Soldier's Recollections Leaves from the diary of a Confederate."

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University of Virginia

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University of Virginia student from Lexington, Ky.; afterwards a Presbyterian minister and missionary to Brazil. From the description of Diploma awarded to John Rockwell Smith [manuscript], 1866 June 29. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647905124 Lt., C.S.A.; teacher, Norwood School, Nelson County, Va.; principal Select School, New York, N.Y. From the description of Diplomas of Waller Holladay [manuscript], 1858-1872. (University of Virginia). WorldC...

Bledsoe, Albert Taylor, 1809-1877

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Albert Taylor Bledsoe (1809-1877), a Confederate official, editor, and author, was the first-born son of Moses Ousley and Sophia Childress Taylor. A fellow student of Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee at West Point Military Academy in 1830, Bledsoe performed military duty at western Indian forts. After graduating from Kenyon College in Ohio, he taught mathematics and French at Kenyon and later Miami University. He praticed law for ten years in Springfield, Illinois from 1838-48 but returned to t...

McKim, Randolph H. (Randolph Harrison), 1842-1920

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Southern Guard (Univeristy of Virginia)

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