VMI's Southern Discomfort; Those Who'd Rather Fight Than Switch Will Doom the School

From: The Washington Post | Date: July 7, 1996| Author: Liza Mundy | Copyright information

ON JUNE 17, 1865, some two months after the Civil War ended, a Virginia planter named Edmund Ruffin penned a final, devastated entry in his diary. Ruffin, though in his seventies, had spent the previous four years as a volunteer private in the Confederate army; he had helped fire the first shot at Fort Sumter, he had hitched a ride into the Battle of First Manassas and now he was a wholly unwilling witness to the Southern surrender.

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