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Academic Staff General Scott Ship, L. L. I)., Supcrintcitdcnt CoLOXEi. JOHX M. Brooke, Captain S. B. Walker, Jr., Pivfissor of P nsics and Aslronomy. Asshlanl ' iv tsior of Pyaionrr. Colonel Thomas M. Sejimes, Captain V. T. Vo -)RHEis, Grad. U. Va., Professor of Modern Languages a)id Rhetoric. In truetor of l.alin. C( )LuNEL E. W. Nichols, , , „ Captain M. B. Corse, Professor of Mathematics. Applied Mathematics and , ., . ■ ,] ir mnies. Assistant Professor oj Tactics. Physics and i hemistry. COLONEL R. A. Marr, Zm ' T i B. B. Morgan, C. E„ Projessor of Engineering and Praun.g. Assistant Professor of Tactics and .Matlumatics. Colonel Hunter Pendleton, I. A., Ph. D., Professor of General and Applied Chemistry. Captain H. C. Ford, B. S., .-Assistant Professor of Tactics and .Modern Language. Colonel D. D. Price, First Artillery, U. S. A., Commandant of Cadets. Professor of Military Science CapTAIN C. B. SlE.MP, B. S., and Tactics, and Instructor of Artillery Tactics. Assistant Professor of Tactics and .Mithematics. il.AjoR N. Beverly Tucker, C. E., B. S.. Captain H. E. Hyatt, B. S., .Idiunet Professor of C icmistrv, Geology and .Miner- , , , , ■„ „„-,,■ ■ ' . Assistant P?ofcssor 01 Tactics and .Mathematics.
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Early Days at the V. M. I. Forsan et haec olim memenisse juvabit. I have been requested to write out uiv rectillections of the early days of the ' irginia Military Institute. I will endeavor to gather, out of m - fast fading recollections, all that 1 can now recall of these events of more than half a century ago. Amongst the prominent institutions of the town of Lexington, in former days, was a debating society, which assembled weekh- for the discussion of educational, social, economic, scientiiic and political questions. The membership of this society con- clergvnien, law -ers and other men of culture, ington, there stood on the present site of the stands of flint-lock fire-arms, muskets and rifles. These were guarded b - a company of twentx- under connnand of a captain, in State ser ' ice. It occurred to the members ot the Franklin priated to the support of the Arsenal and the the establishment and support of a State ?ililitary tar - Aeadenn- at West Point. Accordingly, in an Act of the General Assembly of 1S3S, a ceeded to organize the school by electing a .Smith, then Professor of jMathematics at Hamp- Point, was elected Superintendent and Professor was made Professor of Latin and Modern sisted of the professors of Washington College, In the vear 1838, near the town of Lex- V. M. I. a State Arsenal, containing about 30,000 for the use of the State militia in case of war. enlisted soldiers, with two negro musicians, at an annual cost tt) the State of $6,000. Literarv Society that the , ' ?6,ooo annually appro- guard might be more usefidly appropriated to School, somewhat on the plan of the U. S. Mili- the month of September, 1839, in pursuance of P)Oard of Visitors met at Lexington, and pro- Superintendent and Professors. Francis H. den Sydne - College, and a graduate of West of Mathematics, with the military rank of Major, and John T. L. Preston, A. M. Languages, with the rank of Captain. The first Board of Visitors consisted of: Col. Claude Crozet, a veteran Lieutenant of Engineers, of Napoleon ' s Russian army of invasion of 18 1 2, who was made President of the Board ; Gen. Charles P. Dorman, of Lexington, Va.; Gov. James xMcDowell, of Lexington, Va. ; Dr. Alfred Leybnrn, of Lexington, ' a. ; John T. L. Preston, Esq., of Lexington, Va. ; Hugh Barclay, Esq., of Lexington, Va. ; Gen. Thomas H. Botts, of Fredericksburg, Va. ; Gen. Peter C. Johnston, of Washington Co., Va. (a brother of Gen. Jos. E. Johnston); John F. Wiley, of Powhatan Co., Va. ; Gen. Bernard Peyton, of Richmond, Adjutant General and Ex-officio.
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