South Carolina Military Academy
The South Carolina Military Academy was a predecessor, two-campus institution to
South Carolina Legislature and classes began at the Arsenal (Columbia) in 1843.[1]
South Carolina had constructed a series of arsenals around the state after the Morris Island, South Carolina which shelled the Union steamship Star of the West; the Battalion of State Cadets made up over a third of a Confederate force that defended a strategic rail bridge in the Battle of Tulifinny in 1864.[1]
The Arsenal Academy was burned by Union troops in 1865 and never reopened; the only surviving building became the South Carolina Governor's Mansion. The Citadel Academy and the South Carolina Military Academy closed in 1865; its buildings were in Federal hands until 1882. An 1882 act of the South Carolina Legislature reopened the South Carolina Military Academy, using only the campus in Charleston. Known commonly as The Citadel Academy, the school was renamed in 1910 as The Citadel, after the name "Academy" became common to high schools rather than colleges. The school was moved to its current location in the 1960s.[1]
References
- ^ a b c "A Brief History of The Citadel". 2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog. The Citadel. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
Further reading
- Thomas, John Peyre (1879). Historical sketch of the South Carolina Military Academy : with appendixes. Charleston, S.C.: Walker, Evans & Cogswell.
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