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Southern University Series of School and College Text-Books.

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President:
C. B. Richardson.

Vice-President:
Gen. J. B. Gordon.

Secretary and Treasurer:
Henry Heath.

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Published by
Richardson and Company,
Publishers and Booksellers,
No. 14 Bond Street,
NEW YORK.

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Vice-President's office:
Atlanta, Ga. July 24, 1868

Rt. Rev. Wm M. Green D.D.
Chancellor University

My Dear Sir,

I have learned with great
pleasure of the selection of Gen. J. Gorgas
as Head of the Junior Department of the
"University of the South". You could proba-
bly have found no man more eminently
qualified for the position in the whole
country.

Wishing the University every success
I am with the highest respect

Your obt.servt.

J.B. Gordon

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Regarding the "Junior Department" reference: In 1868, Sewanee students were organized "...into groups of Gownsmen (18 years of age or older) and Juniors (younger students). In addition to a college, the university consisted of a grammar, or preparatory, school and a theological department for training priests. Most who entered the university were between the ages of 14 and 18" From a summer 2019 Meridiana blog by Colton Williams, C’21 Research Assistant for the Roberson Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation

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General John B. Gordon was a General in the Confederate Army, considered to be one of Lee's most trusted generals. After the War, he served as a successful businessman, two separate terms as a United States Senator from Georgia, and as Governor of Georgia. He was believed to have been a leading figure in the Ku Klux Klan after the War, and he was the first Commander-In-Chief of the United Confederate Veterans.

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Gen. Josiah Gorgas was one of the few Northern-born Confederate generals during the Civil War. After the war, he taught at Sewanee and was named Vice-Chancellor in 1870. In 1878 he was named President of the University of Alabama, where he served until ill health forced him to resign. A building at the former Sewanee Military Academy, Gorgas Hall, was named after him.