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TI1K OT-D GUIT‘ © G^cig t Military institute was an acnd mm f i- it Utiry training and education A1thoi gU it wis called a state institute tl\e act of iuc\ ijk ration roads like anil appears to ha\ehc.*n a charter for a pmate institution Tl c. a« t \ v, to InroTpnrato tho Georgia Mili-taiy ii tit 11 to and for other \ urposes therein named Approved December 8 1851Tl o ii'ori orators nero Dmlt;1 Irwin An ■drew ,1 Hansell William P \oung John IT ■Gloi er Martin G Slaughter Dai id Dobbs John donee Charles J McDonald Will am Hams Mordocai Myers md .Tamos Brannon j The i' titnto Mas si mated at Marietta in I Cobh county about twenty lmlos fiom Atlanta At lirsfc it v.as nndei the direction of Colonel \ \ Brumby as superintendent It cpcnel with only seven cadets in July but the nu l her was soon increased imd it became in a little uhiloavory popular institution 4 Tho gc\ eminent aud discipline of the in frt»tu5e were stnctly military and the courso Svud cs was thoroughly scientific and pt-.icLu a 1 boing modeled as nearly as possible -after the Lulled Stntos military academy at West Point The cadets hero wcroycung xneu from tl e first families of Georgia and the ami al commencements before tho wai veto Usually attended by numerous ^ coplo of tho erj best element of sociat and intellectual stanIni, ami attainments ai:d of wealth and orortU in o\ery wayT; b Svliool riounsked oven to tho tine 1SG4 vl eu tho campaign opened between Era^g and Sherman above Dalton General F W Capers was tl on superintend cutThe insututo waa situated on tho summit ofone of ti»c foot lulls of the notv renowned Tteneauv mountain and in plain view of the mouuta n As the contending airaieg fought and matched on our Georgia eoi]t tho moiui tain uni the institute ratne within the Tray of tbeir operations The could £0 to tho mountain but the raountair would not go to the u nor per out of t ieir way and though thousands oi brave xnon fe’l m dea*b nro ind it and on it it is there yet Tho cndcta nt the Institute became more aud more sanguine and to-\ tsp as the armies came nearer Study oi hook* v, oi; practically given up in mow of the xnoro tlirailing prospect of sen ce in the war fiUhtary ontl.ua asm was at fin ei heat Ar.il one memorable m*hs the 'long toll*r souuderl It W'l^ Jri «Wl t-1 tlia
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Atlanta Constitution
Atlanta, Georgia, US
Thu, Jul 10, 1890
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