Long Gray Lines

The Southern Military School Tradition, 1839-1915

By: Rod Jr. Andrew

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Paperback | 28 February 2004

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Military training was a prominent feature of higher education across the nineteenth-century South. Virginia Military Institute and the Citadel, as well as land-grant schools such as Texas A&M, Auburn, and Clemson, organized themselves on a military basis, requiring their male students to wear uniforms, join a corps of cadets, and subject themselves to constant military discipline. Several southern black colleges also adopted a military approach.

Challenging assumptions about a distinctive "southern military tradition," Rod Andrew demonstrates that southern military schools were less concerned with preparing young men for actual combat than with instilling in their students broader values of honor, patriotism, civic duty, and virtue. Southerners had a remarkable tendency to reconcile militarism with republicanism, Andrew says, and following the Civil War, the Lost Cause legend further strengthened the link in southerners' minds between military and civic virtue.

Though traditionally black colleges faced struggles that white schools did not, notes Andrew, they were motivated by the same conviction that powered white military schools--the belief that a good soldier was by definition a good citizen.

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"Well researched, well argued and thought provoking.... A useful work with important insights into a significant southern tradition." - Civil War Book Review; "An important work that engages larger historical questions." - Journal of Military History; "This provocative, highly original, and thoughtfully illustrated study... invites us to rethink the southern military tradition." - Journal of Southern History"

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Educating the Citizen-Soldier: Republicanism and Militarism in Southern Military Schools, 1839-1861	p. 8
Death and Rebirth	p. 26
Soldiers, Christians, and Patriots: The Impact of the Lost Cause	p. 46
Discipline and Defiance	p. 64
Military Law and Individual Rights	p. 78
Military Education for Black Youth	p. 89
Our Duty Is Plain: War and Patriotism in Southern Military Schools, 1898	p. 105
Conclusion	p. 115
Past and Present Names of Educational Institutions	p. 121
Notes	p. 123
Bibliography	p. 145
Index	p. 163
Illustrations
Francis Henney Smith	p. 14
Asbury Coward	p. 23
Citadel cadets firing at Star of the West	p. 24
Charge of the Citadel cadets at Tulifinny	p. 31
Citadel cadet corporal Edward Thomas, class of 1865	p. 32
Charge of VMI cadets at New Market	p. 33
VMI cadets capturing Union battery at New Market	p. 35
North Carolina State's first freshman class, 1889	p. 51
VMI cadets at "summer encampment," 1878	p. 52
Stephen D. Lee	p. 56
Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross	p. 57
Auburn cadets on Confederate Memorial Days, 1895	p. 59
Auburn cadets in "sham battle"	p. 61
Citadel cadets in barracks room, 1906	p. 69
Citadel cadets with dates, 1915	p. 71
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Long Gray Lines

The Southern Military School Tradition, 1839-1915

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