Notebook

Creator:

Gibbs, Philip C. (Philip Cromwell), 1831-1859 and Smith, Sara Henderson, 1812-1884

Scope and content:

The notebook includes:

• Accounts of Corps of Cadets trips to Richmond, Petersburg, Norfolk and Rockbridge Alum Springs, Virginia
• Cadet poetry and essays
• Poetry by Sara Henderson Smith
• Addresses delivered before the Cadet Dialectic Society (a literary and debating society)
• Discussion of exams (1851) in English and natural philosophy
• Account of "An Oyster Supper---A Frolic After Taps"
• Account of "our last bible recitation" in which Philip C. Gibbs describes the last session of his cadetship with Superintendent Francis H. Smith

Language:

English .

Subjects:

College students—Religious life
Rockbridge Alum Springs (Va.)
Universities and colleges—Religion
Virginia Military Institute—Cadet compositions—Poetry
Virginia Military Institute—Cadet compositions—Prose
Virginia Military Institute—Cadet debating societies
Virginia Military Institute—Cadet life—1840-1849
Virginia Military Institute—Cadet life—1850-1859
Virginia Military Institute—Cadet literary societies
Virginia Military Institute—Cadet organizations
Virginia Military Institute—Class of 1851
Virginia Military Institute—Curricula
Virginia Military Institute—Faculty—Anecdotes
Notebooks

Names:

Smith, Francis H. (Francis Henney), 1812-1890
Gibbs, Philip C. (Philip Cromwell), 1831-1859
Smith, Sara Henderson, 1812-1884
Smith, Francis H. (Francis Henney), 1812-1890

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