Francis H. Smith

Name: Virginia Military Institute—Building and Rebuilding — 8
Author: Francis H. Smith

Virginia Military Institute—Building and Rebuilding… (1890)

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“Virginia Military Institute—Building and Rebuilding — 8”, published in 1890, is a work by Francis H. Smith. It explores elements such as the Board of Visitors, the Virginia Military Institute and cadets.

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Francis H. Smith, Virginia Military Institute—Building and Rebuilding… (1890)

“ On the 21st of April, 1861, upon the order of His Excellency, Governor Letcher, he left the Institute in command of the corps of cadets, for Camp Lee, Richmond, for service in defense of his State and country, and he has never known a day of rest until called by Divine command to cease from his labors.
The military career of General Jackson fills the most brilliant and most momentous page in the history of our country, and in the achievement of our arms, and he stands forth a colossal figure in this war for our independence. ”

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Francis H. Smith, Virginia Military Institute—Building and Rebuilding… (1890)

“ Every officer and every cadet respected him for his many sterling qualities. He was a brave man, a conscientious man, and a good man, but he was no professor. His genius was in the Science and Art of War. He found a field for the display of this genius when the war opened in 1861, and it is doubtful whether any soldier ever lived who won and deserved so high a reputation as was achieved by Stonewall Jackson in the brief period of his military career. ”

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Francis H. Smith, Virginia Military Institute—Building and Rebuilding… (1890)

“ Cadet W. Y. C. Humes, the valedictorian on the Graduation Day, made a very graceful acknowledgment of the act of insubordination of his class, and of gratitude to the Board of Visitors for the clemency extended to them, and closed with an earnest appeal to his fellow cadets to take warning from their folly.
The mutterings of the war clouds which were beginning to be heard, as the Institute entered upon the second decade of its history, and which grew more threatening, as the years rolled on, admonished the Board of Visitors of the duty in peace to prepare for war. ”

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Francis H. Smith, Virginia Military Institute—Building and Rebuilding… (1890)

“ It is the painful duty of the Superintendent to announce to the officers and cadets of this institution the death of their late associate and professor, Lieut-Gen. Thomas J. Jackson. He died at Guinea’s Station, Caroline County, Virginia, on the 10th instant, of pneumonia, after a short but violent illness, supervening upon the severe wounds received in the battle of Chancellorsville. A nation mourns the loss of General Jackson. ”

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Francis H. Smith, Virginia Military Institute—Building and Rebuilding… (1890)

“ Here he labored with scrupulous fidelity for ten years in the duties of these important offices. Here he became a Soldier of the Cross, and as a humble, conscientious and useful Christian man, he established the character which has developed into the world-renowned Christian hero. ”

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Francis H. Smith, Virginia Military Institute—Building and Rebuilding… (1890)

“ In supplying teachers who should be qualified to take with them the training here received, in its thoroughness and in its discipline, into the schools of the Commonwealth.
2d. In elevating the standard of scientific education in Virginia.
But now it was called to a more important work, in providing for the defense of the State, by reason of the threatening probabilities of Civil War. ”

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Francis H. Smith, Virginia Military Institute—Building and Rebuilding… (1890)

“ I immediately went to West Point, and sought information in aid of this scheme from the Superintendent and Professors, and then visited the War Department at Washington. The result was, that I was supplied with the names of several of the graduates of West Point who were recommended to me as possessing peculiar qualifications for the new chair. ”

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Francis H. Smith, Virginia Military Institute—Building and Rebuilding… (1890)

“ George B. McClellan, General Rosecrans, General Reno, and Brevet Major T. J. Jackson. I did not know personally any of the parties named, but the notes of the merits of each were laid before the Board of Visitors, which met in Richmond in March, 1851. So strongly were the claims of Major Jackson pressed on me by Major D. H. Hill, then a professor in Washington College, and who had served with him in Mexico, that I was prompted to write to him and ask him whether he would permit me to submit his name to the Board for appointment to this chair. He replied as follows ”

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