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THOMAS MIDDLETON SEMMES
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THE BOMB THOMAS MIDDLETON SEMMES Thomas Middleton Semmes COI.. THOS. ' SI. ,SE: niES. Professor of Modern Languages in the ' ir- ginia Military Institute for thirty-seven years, died at liis home on the parade grounds between four and five o ' clock on the afternoon of November the twenty-sixth, 1904. His health had been gradually failing since a severe attack of sickness in the late winter of last year, which, bringing about organic compli- cations, paved the way for the undermining of his vigorous constitution to such an extent that the tender care of his devoted family and the zealous attentions of his skillful physicians were alike in vain to arrest the course of the fatal disease, which finally terminated his life at the age of sixty-four years. Thomas Middleton Semmes, born at Port Royal, Caroline County, ' a., on the fourth day of September, 1840, and educated in the private schools of the city of Richmond and at Richmond College, entered the Virginia Military Institute as a member of the third class in the summer of 1857, and was graduated on July the fourth, 1860, his class being the largest ever turned out from this Institution up to that time. Appointed as Assistant Professor of the French Language after graduation. Lieutenant Semmes served in that capacity vmtil the breaking out of the war between the States of the Federal Union in April, 1861. He accompanied the Corps of Cadets to Richmond in the spring of that year, and later on was appointed Adjutant of an Arkansas Regiment com- manded b} Colonel Rust, and served in the campaign in West ' irginia. Lieutenant Semmes was ordered back to the Institute on the reorgani- zation of the school in 1862. and served as Instructor of French until July, 1867, when he was ap pointed Professor of Modern Languages, which chair he filled continuously up to the time of his death. In 1863 he married Louise, only daughter of the late Judge John W. Brockenbrough of Lexington, a.. who survives him with two sons and three daughters. 7
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