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TnK OLD G n I 4T' Q G^cig i Military institute was an acnd muv r v i! Htiry tia:ning nn education A1 thoi gU it was called a state institute the ict of met i]lt;.ration roads like mul appears to haveht.en a charter for a pin ite institution TP1 ftlt; t \ a*, to Inrorpnrato tho Georgia blili-taiy :i unite and for other inrposes therein named Approved December 8 1851Tl o n 'ori orators tv ere Da*, id Irwin An drew ,J Haimll Willi \m P \oung John IT lt;41o\ cr Martin G Slaughter Dit id Dobbs John donee Charles J McDonald Will am Han is Morxlecai Myers mil .Tamos Brannon j The r titnto was situated at Marietta m I Cobb county about twenty mi las fiom Atlanta At lirat it Vifli. undei the duoction of Colonel V \ Brumby as superintendent It cpcnol with only seven cadets in July but the xiu l her wos soon increased and it became in a littlo while a very popular institution * The sc^ciTiment aud discipline of die in Htitute wore stnctly military and the course cl s.ud es woa thoroughly scientific* and puicluai boing modeled a nearly as possible After the L nitcd Stacos military academy at West Point The cadets hero were young men from d e first families of Georgia and the aim n.l commoncomcats before tho wai ■^ero lismilyattended by numerous ^eapleof thn erj best element of social and intellectual stanBn., and attainments aud of wealth and vorth in every wayT; b Svhool tlocnshcd oven to tho tine 1SG4 *vl en tho campaign opened between Era^g and Sherman above DaltonGcneml F W Capera was tl on superintend cutThe institute waa situated on tl:o summit of ©no ot tl»c foot lulls of the now renowned Xer iea iw mountain and in plain view of the mouutan As the contend mg auuies fought and matched on our Georgia soil, the luoun tain anl the institute came within the tray of their operations They could go to tho mountain but the mountair would not go to the n nor gcr out of t ieir way and thongh thousands oi brave mon fe’l m dea*h aro uni it I And on ii it is there yet Tho cadets at the institute became more and more sanguine and to.N t*p is the armies came nearer Study of hooks was practically given up in uew of the Jtioro thrilling prospect of sen ce in the war a'ihtQTy ontl.u., asm was at Io. ei heat And one memorable night the long roU*f sounded It was to go to tho fiont Ordc s wo *e gtTeu to marcn to the depot m Maneiri ami take a tram to Xtesaca When they reached the seav of war. * they were placed in the lines, and the battlo of Resaca was where the boys first saw a fight, which 13 the same as mentioned by Lieutenant Jamoa Oates, of the Ninth ■ Xllmoia Mounted infantry. Writing o£ tho :
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Atlanta Constitution
Atlanta, Georgia, US
Thu, Jul 10, 1890
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