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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]P[quote]lenty of Southern colleges struggled during the Civil War, including Duke, UNC, UVA, etc.

None went bankrupt multiple times and were absorbed by the state as a school for educating teachers.[/quote]

You really should read a little before you post stupid stuff.  UVA and UNC are and were public, even so UNC closed during reconstruction between 1871-1875.  W&M was private until 1906.  Duke wasn't even Duke during the period, not yet having received huge amounts of money from it's namesake industrialist benefactors.  It survived the war as Trinity College, basically a seminary for the Methodist Church.  Oh and btw, there were other choices in the South by the 18th and early 19th century. Ever heard of the College of South Carolina or the College of Charleston?  [/quote]

Yes, not much historical context.  Duke was not Duke and was not in Durham.  It was Trinity College in Trinity, North Carolina, and didn't move to Durham until 1892.  It didn't start to look like what became present day Duke until the the Duke Endowment funds came in the 1920s.  UNC as noted had to close during Reconstruction.

UVA was occupied by the Union (Generals Custer and Sheridan), but was spared being burned.  In this regard, it was more fortunate than other schools like William & Mary, the University of Alabama, and VMI, which were burned by the occupiers.  Still UVA only graduated 5 students at the lowest points and only reached pre-war enrollment again in 1904, nearly 40 years after the end of the Civil War.[/quote]

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