Rutgers and the Civil War

Authors

  • Richard P. McCormick Rutgers University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14713/jrul.v24i2.1399

Keywords:

Theodore Frelinghuysen, Civil War, American History, Rutgers

Abstract

McCormick describes the conditions at Rutgers College during the Civil War from Rutgers president Theodore Frelinghuysen's patriotical call at the outset of the War to the undergraduates to drastically declining enrollments during the during the war.  At the same time, college life continued and by the end of the war was setting forth upon a wholly new course of development.

Author Biography

Richard P. McCormick, Rutgers University

Rutgers University Libraries

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Published

2012-05-10

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