Primary Source Collection – Dickinson College

Dickinson College was truly a “house divided” during the Civil War era, its student body was divided nearly evenly between southerners and northerners in the years leading up to the conflict.  And once war erupted, many former classmates found themselves arrayed against each other as enemies in the field of battle.

William Willey to Waitman Willey April 22, 1861	Circular Letter April 24, 1861	John Stayman to Edgar Hastings July 1863	Recollection by George Baylor, May 24, 1864	Albright to Gamble April 10, 1865	Recollection by George Baylor April 10, 1865