Civil War Original Period Items

POST-CIVIL WAR SOUTH CAROLINA MILITARY ACADEMY CADETS CITADEL PHOTO c1882

POST-CIVIL WAR SOUTH CAROLINA MILITARY ACADEMY CADETS CITADEL PHOTO c1882
POST-CIVIL WAR SOUTH CAROLINA MILITARY ACADEMY CADETS CITADEL PHOTO c1882
POST-CIVIL WAR SOUTH CAROLINA MILITARY ACADEMY CADETS CITADEL PHOTO c1882
POST-CIVIL WAR SOUTH CAROLINA MILITARY ACADEMY CADETS CITADEL PHOTO c1882
POST-CIVIL WAR SOUTH CAROLINA MILITARY ACADEMY CADETS CITADEL PHOTO c1882
POST-CIVIL WAR SOUTH CAROLINA MILITARY ACADEMY CADETS CITADEL PHOTO c1882
POST-CIVIL WAR SOUTH CAROLINA MILITARY ACADEMY CADETS CITADEL PHOTO c1882
POST-CIVIL WAR SOUTH CAROLINA MILITARY ACADEMY CADETS CITADEL PHOTO c1882

POST-CIVIL WAR SOUTH CAROLINA MILITARY ACADEMY CADETS CITADEL PHOTO c1882
POST-CIVIL WAR " SOUTH CAROLINA MILITARY ACADEMY CADETS " CITADEL CABINET CARD PHOTO c1882. POST-CIVIL WAR " SOUTH CAROLINA MILITARY ACADEMY " CADETS, LATER KNOWN AS THE " CITADEL " PHOTO c1882. A GROUP OF " SOUTH CAROLINA MILITARY ACADEMY " CADETS POSE WITH THEIR. "SC" HAT BADGES ON THEIR KEPIS IN c1882.

Was a predecessor, two-campus institution to The. It was established in 1842 by the South Carolina Legislature. South Carolina had constructed a series of arsenals around the state after the Denmark Vesey planned slave revolt of 1822; these were consolidated into Columbia and Charleston arsenals. No longer seen as militarily necessary, they became in 1842 the South Carolina Military Academy, consisting of the Arsenal Academy in Columbia and the Citadel Academy in Charleston.

During the Civil War students from both served as the Battalion of State Cadets; classes continued, with interruptions. SCMA cadets fired the first shots of the Civil War on January 9, 1861 while manning a gun emplacement on Morris Island, South Carolina which shelled the Union steamship Star of the West; the Battalion of State Cadets made up over a third of a Confederate force that defended a strategic rail bridge in the Battle of Tulifinny in 1864, the only occasion when the entire student body of an American college fought in combat. The Arsenal Academy was burned by Union troops in 1865 and never reopened; the only surviving building became the South Carolina Governor's Mansion. The Citadel Academy and the South Carolina Military Academy closed in 1865; its buildings were in Federal hands until 1882. An 1882 act of the South Carolina Legislature reopened the South Carolina Military Academy, using only the campus in Charleston. Known commonly as The Citadel Academy, the school was renamed in 1910 as The Citadel, after the name "Academy" became common to high schools rather than colleges. DIMENSIONS: 4 1/4" x 6 1/2". CONDITION OF THE PHOTO IMAGE IS EXTREMELY FINE THROUGHOUT WITH LIGHT CORNER WEAR ON THE MOUNT. SHARP FOCUS WITH VERY GOOD CONTRAST.

A CLOSEUP PICTURE OF THE "SC" HAT BADGE IS INCLUDED FROM ANOTHER SOURCE FOR REFERENCE ONLY AND WILL NOT BE INCLUDED WITH THIS LISTING. THIS IS NOT A COPY OR A REPRODUCTION.

This item is in the category "Collectibles\Militaria\Civil War (1861-65)\Original Period Items\Photographs". The seller is "topcat2001565758590" and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States, all countries in Europe, Canada, Australia.
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  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Theme: Militaria
  • Original/Reproduction: Original
  • Conflict: Civil War (1861-65)

POST-CIVIL WAR SOUTH CAROLINA MILITARY ACADEMY CADETS CITADEL PHOTO c1882