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Carolina Story: Virtual Museum of University History

David Lowry Swain (1801-1868)

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During the Civil War, the university remained open with a handful of students and faculty but gradually sank into debt. Unlike other southern universities, enrollment at Chapel Hill failed to recover in peacetime. Fewer than one hundred students attended between 1865 and 1868, and many observers blamed the unpopularity of President David Swain.