Virginia Military Institute - Bomb Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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Sundry unsought but well-deserved honors have come to General Shipp by the way. In 1890, he was one of the Visitors to the United States Military Academy. In 1891, Washington and Lee University conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws. In 1894, he was president of the Visitors to the United States Naval Academy. In 1869, General Shipp married Miss Nannie, the beautiful and accomplished daughter of Mr. Arthur A. Morson, of Richmond, Virginia. After a peculiarly happy married life of fifteen years, Mrs. Shipp died February 20th, 1884, leaving to him the care of three small children, — two daughters and a son. This charge he fulfilled faithfully and well. The daughters are both married to graduates of the Virginia Military Institute. Arthur Morson, the son, a V. M. I. graduate of ' 97, is a lieutenant in the Twentieth United States Infantry, and is now seeing active service in the Philippines. General Shipp is striking in personal appearance, and a man of strong individuality. To those not well acquainted with him, he would be considered somewhat brusque and austere, but inti- mate acquaintance discovers behind all this a warm and tender heart, one which manifests not only a strong solicitude for the welfare and progress of cadets while under his immediate charge, but which follows them in their subsequent lives with a show of interest truly remarkable. His life long, he has been a close stu- dent ; and his fund of sound and ready information in so many and so varied fields shows how broad is the grasp of his mind. General Shipp ' s conspicuous success as commandant of cadets has been remarked. As superintendent, he has been the more successful as his field has been wider. The same untiring energy and faithfulness characterize him ; he is still careful of the minutest details ; yet, withal, he is thoroughly alive to the larger needs of the institution over which he presides. The Virginia Military Insti- tute has a safe and aggressive head and helmsman in Scott Shipp. W. S. Hancock, ' 90.

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General Scott Shipp. ENERAL SCOTT SHIPP, superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute, was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, August 2d, 1839. He received his earlier education at Warren Green Academy, Warrenton, Virginia, and at the Warrenton High School. In the autumn of 1852, when but thirteen years old, he was sent to Fulton College, Fulton, Missouri. Here he studied for three years, accomplishing with conspicuous merit the work of the freshman, sophomore, and junior classes. Leaving Fulton in 1855, he was for one year a member of an engineering corps of the North Missouri Railroad Company. In the fall of 1856, he enlisted at the Virginia Military Insti- tute. Entering the third class, he was three years later graduated fourth in a class of twenty-nine and captain of Company D. Immediately upon graduation, he was elected assistant professor of mathematics. Later, he was transferred to the department of Latin, in which he continued until the outbreak of the Civil War. On April 17th, 1861, Virginia withdrew from the Union; on the 21st, the Corps of Cadets under the command of Jackson left under orders for the Camp of Instruction at Richmond, Virginia. Lieutenant Shipp was detached from the Cadets for the purpose of recruiting a company in Rockbridge County. A few days after- wards, he was ordered to report at Camp Lee in Richmond. There he was assigned to duty as assistant adjutant-general, and later was commissioned captain in the Provisional Army of Virginia. He continued on duty at Camp Lee, however, until June, 1861, when he was made major of the Twenty-first Virginia Regiment, and ordered to West Virginia. His regiment formed a part of Loring ' s Division, which constituted a part of the command of General R. E. Lee. Throughout the campaign in this State, he was in command of the regiment; for its colonel was in command of the brigade, and its lieutenant-colonel was absent. In December, 1861, his regiment was ordered to Staunton, and was then directed to report to General Jackson at Winchester; this it did in time to serve in Jackson ' s expedition to Bath, Romney, and Hancock, — one of the roughest services of the war.

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