Letter from Claude E. Sawyer to Colonel Asbury Coward, April 8, 1898
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Letter from Claude E. Sawyer to Colonel Asbury Coward, April 8, 1898
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Letter from Claude E. Sawyer 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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English
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https://citadeldigitalarchives.omeka.net/items/show/589
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Confidential
Aiken, S. C., April 8, 1898
Col. Ashbury Coward,
Charleston S. C.
My dear Sir: - I was a member of the Legislature when the Citadel was reopened and we had hard work to do it. I was afterwards a member when we had hard fighting to get an appropriation for it. It has been fought politicious ever since.
I have read with deep concern the accounts of the late rebellion, and [illegible] to say that, in my opinion, if you do not expel every one of those rebels, or at least, the nine leaders, the institution is gone. I have had to work for [illegible words] you can maintain discipline. I think it ought to be abolished. The institution has sunk low when it is filled with a crowd of roughs who are a disgrace to the State.
Yours sincerely,
Claude E. Sawyer
Confidential
Aiken, S. C., April 8, 1898
Col. Ashbury Coward,
Charleston S. C.
My dear Sir: - I was a member of the Legislature when the Citadel was reopened and we had hard work to do it. I was afterwards a member when we had hard fighting to get an appropriation for it. It has been fought politicious ever since.
I have read with deep concern the accounts of the late rebellion, and [illegible] to say that, in my opinion, if you do not expel every one of those rebels, or at least, the nine leaders, the institution is gone. I have had to work for [illegible words] you can maintain discipline. I think it ought to be abolished. The institution has sunk low when it is filled with a crowd of roughs who are a disgrace to the State.
Yours sincerely,
Claude E. Sawyer
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Sawyer, Claude E., “Letter from Claude E. Sawyer to Colonel Asbury Coward, April 8, 1898,” The Citadel Archives Digital Collections, accessed April 28, 2024, https://citadeldigitalarchives.omeka.net/items/show/589.