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It gives an introduction on The University in relation to the rebellion; a chapter of “Biographies of Students who Died in the Service or from Disease Contracted in the Service” ; an account of The Memorial Tablet in manning Hall, and a Roll of students, Graduates and non-graduates, who served in the army and Navy of the United States during the rebellion.

There were in the service in all capacities during the war two hundred and sixty-six of the old students, and of these twenty-one were killed or died from wounds or disease contracted in the service. We have said that the book is admirably gotten up (albeit there are, of course, sentiments which we utterly repudiate, and phrases which we would fain hope our friend Major Burrage would modify if he had written in 1880 instead of 1868), and we would rejoice to see such a volume for every college and university in the land.

We were very much struck by one statement, as illustrating the odds against which the South fought: Brown University not only continued its regular sessions but, had in attendance more than its average of students during the whole war. This was probably true of other Northern colleges; while nearly every college at the South was closed, and its professors and students enlisted en masse in the armies of the Confederacy.

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