The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . been sacked and defaced by Fed-eral soldiers, the apparatus andlibrary despoiled, the vestedfunds, chiefiy Virginia statesecurities, were unproductivethrough the poverty of thestat
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . been sacked and defaced by Fed-eral soldiers, the apparatus andlibrary despoiled, the vestedfunds, chiefiy Virginia statesecurities, were unproductivethrough the poverty of thestate, and but four professorsand forty students remained, ^.^cPresident .Lees executive abil- ; ity. sppnbrought order out of _ oii_^MchaoSjJhe building was repair-ed, the library and apparatusrenewed, and the course of in-struction organized upon a newbasis, an elective course beingestablished for the old curric-ulum, the system of distinctdepartments or schools beingadopted in place of the formersystem of classes. Three newchairs of instruction were addedto the five already established,and before the closeof PresidentLees second year, a fourth was added. Also, on hisaccession, a new department of law and equity wasplaced under the care of Judge John W. Brocken-brough, President Lee also urged the immediate erection of a college chapel, and constantlylabored to secure faithful attendance at all religious. 166 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA services. His personal care was exercised in regardto the religious condition of each student, and hesaid: I shall fail in the leading object that broughtme here unless these young men all become consist-ent Christians. During President Lees administra-tion students came in large numbers from every partof the South. Some of them were his own soldiers,whose education had been interrupted by the war,many of them advanced in years, who felt the desire
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