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HMM 4 i.»»»» »»y»y j»Lyy»yyj . M . M As the Clouds of War gathered over the nation in the 1840 ' s and 50 ' s and talk of secession, slavery, and states ' rights filled the Congress of the United States, the Medical Department of Hampden -Sydney College was waging a rebellion of its own . With the creation of a new position of physiology and jurisprudence at the Medical Department in 1853 and the appointment by the Hampden- Sydney trustees of a person hostile to the faculty and its wishes, a split took place between the two institutions . In February 1854 , the Medical Department of Hampden- Sydney College became the Medical College of Virginia, an independent institution. As the nation neared the 1860 ' s, the schism between North and South was accentuated by John Brown ' s raid on Harper ' s Ferry in 1859. Numerous southern medical students attending northern universities returned to the South and MCV. By 1860, MCV became a state institution. 1 flashback
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In 1861 eleven southern states had seceded, the first shots of the war had been fired at Fort Sumter, and J Richmond was the capital of the Confederate States of America . The College found itself playing an important role in educating surgeons for the Confederacy and caring for the wounded and sick personnel . ? As the number of wounded grew larger and the war drew closer , makeshift hospitals sprang up all over Richmond . Drugs became scarce and expensive . The situation was desperate . k With the fall of Petersburg in April 1865 , Richmond was evacuated and sections of the city were burned by fleeing citizens to keep arms and supplies from falling into Union hands . After the siurender at Appomattox, Richmond was occupied by Federal troops, and the job of Reconstruction begun. MCV was saved from financial troubles by the General Assembly in 1866. Enrollment fell in the late 1860 ' s, but by the 1870 ' s the college was ready to begin its Era of Expansion. rAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ' ••AAA AA A A • A A A flashback 1 1
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