Colonial Echo, 1899 . % i86r, the existence ofhcistilities at her ver\ tlireshuld rendered it necessary to sus])end .September, 1862, some drunken hederal soldiers fired and once more JOHN TYLER, SR,Governor of Virginia. Grnmmay Sc/mlar ;4: Member nf llie Buiint nf \if!i/ors /So.;. destroyed the college building, together willi the librarw a|)])aratus, andDther pro])erty belonging to the college. Afterwards oilier houses and])roperty were destroyed b\ Inion soldiers. To many at that time it must have seemed that tlu institution had fallennever to rise again. Its Iniildings w
Colonial Echo, 1899 . % i86r, the existence ofhcistilities at her ver\ tlireshuld rendered it necessary to sus])end .September, 1862, some drunken hederal soldiers fired and once more JOHN TYLER, SR,Governor of Virginia. Grnmmay Sc/mlar ;4: Member nf llie Buiint nf \if!i/ors /So.;. destroyed the college building, together willi the librarw a|)])aratus, andDther pro])erty belonging to the college. Afterwards oilier houses and])roperty were destroyed b\ Inion soldiers. To many at that time it must have seemed that tlu institution had fallennever to rise again. Its Iniildings were in ruins, and the country around,after the departure of the Federal army, seemed utterly desolate. IlUt thosewalls in which the calm voice of ])hiloso])hy had echoed for so many yearswere not destined to stand as ;i mouldering monument of the wickedness ofwar. friends and alunmi rallied aroimd the college: i8(hj saw thei)uildings entirely restored and the college in the enjoyment of a new 29. 5»f:-mM^^ PORTO BELLO, SIX MILES FROM Lotf/e nf Lorl Ihimmirr, liisf Royal Goremor of yin/iuitt. Iacult}- organized with the departments of Latin, dreek. Matiieniatics,Modern Lanouages, Xatural Science, Philoso])hy, and Celles-Lettres. It is a peculiar fact in the history of institutions of learning that coni-
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