Letter from H. W. Crouch to Colonel Asbury Coward, April 17, 1898
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Letter from H. W. Crouch to Colonel Asbury Coward, April 17, 1898
Description
Letter from H. W. Crouch, father of Cadet H. W. Crouch, to Colonel Asbury Coward concerning the Cadet Rebellion of 1898.
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CP8, Box 5, Folder 2
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Asbury Coward Collection
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English
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https://citadeldigitalarchives.omeka.net/items/show/598
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[Page 1]
Charleston S. C. April 17th 1898
Col Asbury Coward
Supt SCMA
Dear Sir
I applied to the Chairman of the Board of Visitors for my sons discharge or his expulsion along with his misguided comrades – Both were refused so rather than have him enrolled as a deserter I have concluded to let him return and serve out his sentence of two months restriction.
At the expiration of this restriction I will apply again for his discharge.
[Page 2]
I look to you to see that no indignity other than the sentence, is applied to him by faculty nor corps.
Should this be done I will remove him by habeas corpus and the order of a court.
I dislike very much to be coerced into a [illegible] of action but your board has the advantage of now and I reluctantly submit.
Very Respectfully
H. W. Crouch
[Page 3]
H’d. Qrs. S. C. M. A.
April 18 1898
Respectfully forward the order dismissing this cadet as per the Chairman’s instructions on Saturday, is in the hands of the Commandant, but has not yet been read at parade. I wait further instructions from the Chairman
Asbury Coward
Supt.
The Chairman has no official notice of Crouch’s desertion. He was said to have been [illegible] at home from personal injury. I think best to allow him to return than [illegible words] his case be treated [illegible words].
C. S. Gadsden
Chairman
Charleston S. C. April 17th 1898
Col Asbury Coward
Supt SCMA
Dear Sir
I applied to the Chairman of the Board of Visitors for my sons discharge or his expulsion along with his misguided comrades – Both were refused so rather than have him enrolled as a deserter I have concluded to let him return and serve out his sentence of two months restriction.
At the expiration of this restriction I will apply again for his discharge.
[Page 2]
I look to you to see that no indignity other than the sentence, is applied to him by faculty nor corps.
Should this be done I will remove him by habeas corpus and the order of a court.
I dislike very much to be coerced into a [illegible] of action but your board has the advantage of now and I reluctantly submit.
Very Respectfully
H. W. Crouch
[Page 3]
H’d. Qrs. S. C. M. A.
April 18 1898
Respectfully forward the order dismissing this cadet as per the Chairman’s instructions on Saturday, is in the hands of the Commandant, but has not yet been read at parade. I wait further instructions from the Chairman
Asbury Coward
Supt.
The Chairman has no official notice of Crouch’s desertion. He was said to have been [illegible] at home from personal injury. I think best to allow him to return than [illegible words] his case be treated [illegible words].
C. S. Gadsden
Chairman
Collection
Citation
Crouch, H. W., “Letter from H. W. Crouch to Colonel Asbury Coward, April 17, 1898,” The Citadel Archives Digital Collections, accessed April 28, 2024, https://citadeldigitalarchives.omeka.net/items/show/598.