Long Gray Lines: The Southern Military School Tradition, 1839-1915

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Univ of North Carolina Press, Feb 1, 2004 - History - 169 pages
Military training was a prominent feature of higher education across the nineteenth-century South. Virginia Military Institute and the Citadel, as well as land-grant schools such as Texas A&M, Auburn, and Clemson, organized themselves on a military basis,

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Educating the CitizenSoldier Republicanism and Militarism in Southern Military Schools 18391861
8
Death and Rebirth
26
Soldiers Christians and Patriots The Impact of the Lost Cause
46
Discipline and Defiance
64
Military Law and Individual Rights
78
Military Education for Black Youth
89
Our Duty Is Plain War and Patriotism 1n Southern Mil1tary Schools 1898
105
Conclusion
115
Past and Present Names of Educational Institutions
121
Notes
123
Bibliography
145
Index
163
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