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student disorder and
public criticism,
McCay submitted his
resignation in 1857.
Following an investigation,
it was
a nnounced that
Augustus Baldwin
Longstreet had been
elected president. He
had at various times
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Deen a legisuaior,
writer, judge,
minister, and college
president.
In the dark of night,
five half-masked
horsemen, their faces
blackened and their
scarlet capes blowing
in the breeze, galloped
furiously through the
quiet campus. The
torches they waved
and the beating of
hooves hroncFht out
sleeping students to
cheer t hem on.
Perhaps the night of
"black riding" would
end with "tin-panning"
in the yards of an
unpopuia r professor.
Such noisy pranks of
the students seemed to
be only a small outburst
of the fiery spirit
thev were sunoressine
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until the impending
war finally came.
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example of built-up
hostility. When a
student named Niles
was jailed after a fight,
support was there.
The battle cry of
"College!" brought the
students off the
campus and they came
rallying in defense of
their peer. Several
beat their way into the
guardhouse with clubs
but were chased away.
The next day 100
revenge-seeking students
armed with rifles
from the cadet arsenal
marched to the
guardhouse only to
find themselves face to
face with 200 pistolcarrying
townspeople.
Before any violence
exploded, however,
former President
Thornwell was summoned,
and promising
the students revenge
he led the way back to
campus with the cry of
"College!." The
faculty forthwith
disbanded the Cadet
Corps. The unpopular
Charles McCay,
president of the college
at the time, realized
his lack of discipline
and resigned after only
18 montns in oince.
Augustus Longstreet's
replacement of
McCay was a relief to
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the faculty. Longstreet '
had the rare gift of
befriending the
students while
retaining firm control.
When the students
demanded a holiday
for John C. Calhoun's
birthday and were
refused, they tarred
the classroom benches
so that classes were
forced to be cancelled.
Longstreet suspended
100 out of the 180
students enrolled.
The college's Cadet
Corps was reorganized
after heated debate by
the faculty ~ they
wanted to preserve the
college at all costs -but
the students
wanted to prepare to
fieht a war. At the
news of the fighting at
Fort Sumter in 1861,
the cadets were eager
to join in, but under
faculty regulations
they needed
Longstreet's permission
to go. He
refused; at a secret
meeting the students
decided to disband the
Old Corps and form a
new one with their own
rules. They left the
College, marched
down to the railway
station and paid their
own way ,to
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BEAUREGARD placed
the cadets on
Sullivan's Island
where they could drill
and watch the battle
and remain safe from
actual fire. After three
weeks they returned to
Columbia as heros and
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about a month until
war fever overtook
them once more.
The gradual loss of
men reduced the
student body to75 by
the fall. Upon hearing
the news of the Union's
capture of Port Royal,
the Cadets sought
faculty permission to
leave. They were given
a firm 4'no," but they
replied "yes, and left
anyway.
Entrance requirements
were dropped to
gather a class for
January, 1982, but only
72 students came.
Instead of risking the
draft after "Jeff"
Davis called for more
troops, the majority of
these students signed
up for service too.
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his own course and c
upon completing the t
requirements would *
receive a degree in t
that field. To receive a 1
B.A. degree one had to i
complete two literary schools,
two science schools
and two other *
schools of his choice. t
THE UNIVERSITY <
opened on Jan. 10,1866. i
In the preceding years 1
the buildings had been \
used as hospitals, a
prison, shelter for ;
slaves and the 1
freedman's bureau. 1
Many refugees from <
the fire in 1865
remained housed on I
campus until 1869. In <
spite of the dilapidated (
condition, the old
college buildings were
in better shape than
most of Columbia and
the students came. By
May, 1866 there were
48 on roll.
In general the new
students were more
mature and welldisciplined
as compared
to their
predecessors. However,
when the U.S.
Army built a garrison
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ebels-turned-students
>ecame infuriated.
Phe same blue
miforms they had
>pent four long years
shooting at now^'
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heir campus every
iay. The professors
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students that killing a
Yankee in '64 was
justified by war, but
killing him in '74 would
be an i 11 e g a 1,,
assasination.
The University was
growing and its only
acedemic setbacks
during the first years
were the losses of two
colleges. The School of
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discontinued after the
theft of the telescope,
and the College of
Medicine, which*
received criticism
from the Medical
College in Charleston
saying one medical
school in the state was
enough, was ended
when funds ran out.
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