Letter from Mary E. Farrior to Colonel Asbury Coward, April 10, 1898
Title
Letter from Mary E. Farrior to Colonel Asbury Coward, April 10, 1898
Description
Letter from Mary E. Farrior, mother of Cadet W. H. Farrior, to Colonel Asbury Coward concerning the Cadet Rebellion of 1898, also known as the Cantey Rebellion.
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CP8, Box 5, Folder 2
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The Citadel Archives & Museum
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Asbury Coward Collection
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Charlotte N. C. Apr 10th 1898
Col. Asbury Coward
Dear Sir: -
I wrote to you on or about the 29th of March. This is what I said as much as I could can remember.
My son’s reports which I have received monthly indicate that he has not been applying himself diligently, and that I could not longer spare the money from which he was deriving so little benefit; and that I had hoped he would
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realize his deficiency in education, and improve himself at your school, and that I would be guided by your decision as to whether he was doing his best or not. I did not receive an answer to this, so I wrote you a second letter saying I would send you this note for the remainder of the time unless you advised me differently. I have not yet received an answer to this one, and after I heard of the trouble in the Academy, thought that was why I had not heard from you, and at the same time congratulating myself that Walter had taken no part
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in the rebellion, but after that occurred and the war clouds seem so dark, I thought I would prefer to have him with me, so I sent him the money to come home on, not knowing there was anything else to be done, he wired me he would be home on Tuesday, so I thought – he had friends who he wished to spend Easter with. I know he has the highest regard for you, for he told me how he had censured his roommate, for the very disrespectful way he answered you, when you ordered him to retire to his room. I thought I would call him home and let him return next
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fall and if there was paper to be gotten and for his discharge, they would be attended to, and you can not imagine what a pang went through my heart when I read your litigation, of all cowardly degrading things I think desertion fills it, - so please for my sake send him home with his name clear of that. I wish I had never thought of his coming home.
Yours Very Truly
Mary E. Farrior
513 Graham St:
Charlotte N. C.
Charlotte N. C. Apr 10th 1898
Col. Asbury Coward
Dear Sir: -
I wrote to you on or about the 29th of March. This is what I said as much as I could can remember.
My son’s reports which I have received monthly indicate that he has not been applying himself diligently, and that I could not longer spare the money from which he was deriving so little benefit; and that I had hoped he would
[Page 2]
realize his deficiency in education, and improve himself at your school, and that I would be guided by your decision as to whether he was doing his best or not. I did not receive an answer to this, so I wrote you a second letter saying I would send you this note for the remainder of the time unless you advised me differently. I have not yet received an answer to this one, and after I heard of the trouble in the Academy, thought that was why I had not heard from you, and at the same time congratulating myself that Walter had taken no part
[Page 3]
in the rebellion, but after that occurred and the war clouds seem so dark, I thought I would prefer to have him with me, so I sent him the money to come home on, not knowing there was anything else to be done, he wired me he would be home on Tuesday, so I thought – he had friends who he wished to spend Easter with. I know he has the highest regard for you, for he told me how he had censured his roommate, for the very disrespectful way he answered you, when you ordered him to retire to his room. I thought I would call him home and let him return next
[Page 4]
fall and if there was paper to be gotten and for his discharge, they would be attended to, and you can not imagine what a pang went through my heart when I read your litigation, of all cowardly degrading things I think desertion fills it, - so please for my sake send him home with his name clear of that. I wish I had never thought of his coming home.
Yours Very Truly
Mary E. Farrior
513 Graham St:
Charlotte N. C.
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Farrior, Mary E., “Letter from Mary E. Farrior to Colonel Asbury Coward, April 10, 1898,” The Citadel Archives Digital Collections, accessed April 28, 2024, https://citadeldigitalarchives.omeka.net/items/show/569.