Letter from P. F. Stevens to Colonel Asbury Coward, April 5, 1898

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Letter from P. F. Stevens to Colonel Asbury Coward, April 5, 1898

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Letter from P. F. Stevens 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/590

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Orangeburg S. C. April 5 1898

My Dear Col. & Friend – It was with deep pain for the honor of our beloved Academy & the sincerest sympathy for you personally that I read this morning the account of the extremely unfortunate trouble in the Academy last night. It is a deep stain upon its fair [illegible] that the young men should have allowed themselves to be led into such riotous conduct as to require the presence of the police to control them. Your management of that Institution and the conduct of the Corps under it has won such high praise from all quarters that this outbreak will be all the greater reproach to the corps of young men themselves and of course reflectively

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upon their institution. They will surely repent it all their lives and nothing they can do will ever remedy it. When things settle down a little, if you think [illegible] from me would be of service I will be glad to come down at any time. Meanwhile I earnestly commend you to God’s kind care and guidance.

Yours sincerely
P. F. Stevens

Citation

Stevens, P. F., “Letter from P. F. Stevens to Colonel Asbury Coward, April 5, 1898,” The Citadel Archives Digital Collections, accessed March 28, 2024, https://citadeldigitalarchives.omeka.net/items/show/590.