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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Roster of the Battalion of the Georgia Military Institute Cadets (search)
tary Tactics and Engineering. Captain James S. Austin, Commandant of Cadets and Professor of English Literature. Captain Victor E. Manget, Professor of French. Captain John M. Richardson, Professor of Higher Mathematics. Captain Paul Eve, Professor of Mathematics and English Branches. Rev. John W. Baker, Chaplain of the Institute, and Professor of Belle Lettres. Dr. E. J. Setze, Physician and Surgeon G. M. I. Major Dobbs, Quartermaster and Commissary. About the first of May, 1864, orders were received for the battalion to prepare for active service. Equipments of army guns and accoutrements, knacksacks, haversacks and canteens were received and issued to the cadets. They were intensely interested in these preparatory events. The battalion was divided into two companies in the duties at the Institute, Company A and Company B, composed of boys 16 to 18 years of age, and in the same way they entered the army service. General Capers was placed in command as m