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The Civil War Years

Campus debates about slavery and secession and the military experience of students and faculty who fought in the Civil War.

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  1. William Gaston (1778-1844), a prominent attorney, judge, and university trustee
  2. Benjamin S. Hedrick (1827-1886)
  3. David L. Swain (1801-1868)
  4. Colonel Henry King Burgwyn, Jr. (1841-1863), university student killed at Gettysburg
  5. Zebulon B. Vance (1830-1894)
  6. Brigadier General James Johnston Pettigrew (1828-1863)
  7. Major General Bryan Grimes (1828-1880)
  8. William J. Martin (1839-1896)
  9. Samuel Field Phillips (1824-1903)
  10. Runaway slave hiding in a swamp
  11. Confederates failed to stop Sherman in Fayetteville, sketch of battle on March 11, 1865
  12. William A. Graham (1804-1875)
  13. Wilson Caldwell (1841-1898)
  14. Archeologists found a Union army uniform button—possibly belonging to one of Atkins's soldiers—when excavating at the James Lee Love House on Chapel Hill's Franklin Street.
  15. Eleanor Swain Atkins (ca. 1843-1881)
  16. President David L. Swain (1801-1868)
  17. Silent Sam

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