{"id":667,"date":"2011-02-07T13:44:05","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T20:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cumberlandcivilwar.com\/?p=667"},"modified":"2011-02-07T13:44:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T20:44:05","slug":"dickinson-college-gettysburg-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/dickinson-college-gettysburg-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Dickinson College \u2013 Gettysburg Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In June 1863 Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s<\/a> army invaded Pennsylvania. As Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Curtin <\/a>(Class of 1837) called out the state militia, students at Dickinson<\/a> were preparing for final exams. Yet despite “the alarm” Dickinson College President Herman Johnson<\/a> observed<\/a> that “the students remained quietly at their posts” even as “the community around us had been a prey to the intensest agitation.” While “formal commencement exercises” were not held, James Morgan explains<\/a> that thirteen students\u00a0received\u00a0“their diplomas with the blessing of the College and dismissed” before the Confederates arrived in Carlisle<\/a> on June 27, 1863. Confederates made Old West<\/a> their headquarters and used East College<\/a> as a hospital. After they seized supplies, the Confederates left the following day. Union General William F. Smith<\/a> reoccupied the town, but on July 1 General J.E.B. Stuart<\/a> arrived \u00a0and demanded that the Union troops surrender. After they refused, Confederates shelled the town. Stuart’s cavalry left Carlisle early on July 2 after they received reports about the\u00a0battle\u00a0that had started around Gettysburg<\/a> on July 1. Both East College and South College<\/a> sustained damage during the attack. While “one [shell] hit South College just below the telescope [and tore] thru the roof,” Conway Hillman<\/a> (Class of 1873)\u00a0recalled <\/a>that it “fortunately…did not explode.” Conway’s father, Professor Samuel Hillman<\/a> (Class of 1850), served in the home guard and was sent to Gettysburg after the battle. “Father never got over the sight of the dead along the route of Pickett’s<\/a> charge,” as Conway remembered.<\/p>\n

You can read more about Dickinson College during the Civil War in Chapter 27 <\/a>of James Henry Morgan’s Dickinson College: The History of One Hundred and Fifty Years, 1783 \u2013 1933<\/a><\/em> (1933).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In June 1863 Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s army invaded Pennsylvania. As Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Curtin (Class of 1837) called out the state militia, students at Dickinson were preparing for final exams. Yet despite “the alarm” Dickinson College President Herman …<\/p>\n

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