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generous impulses of our nature were brought constantly into action, stimulated by the heroic endurance and splendid gallantry of our soldiers." *

The village of Chapel Hill was taken possession of by Federal troops on April 17, 1865. The brigade was under the command of ('initial S. D. Atkins, of Illinois, and was composed of 4,000 Michigan cavalry. He moved his division westward seventeen days later, except a single company, which occupied the college build- ings for more than two months. During May General Couch passed through the village at the head of 12,000 men. It is worthy of note that the entire damage sustained by the village and college from the invaders is estimated by Governor Swain not to have exceeded $ico. Nor was this occupation without a tinge of romance, for in the mid-t of these surroundings the daughter of Governor Swain was wooed and won by General Atkins, and Cupid began the work of Recon- struction.

The following summary of statistics of Confederate dead of the University of North Carolina is made up from the list prepared by Colonel William L. Saunders for the four tablets in Memo- rial Hall (which contain 271 names, and give rank and class), from the additions to the list found in the catalogue of the Dia- lectic Society (containing 308 names), edited by Dr. William J. Battle; from the additions found in the Register of the Philan- thropic Society (containing 272 names), edited by the present writer; from the the " Biographical Sketches of the Confederate dead of the University of North Carolina" (containing 162 names), edited by the present writer and published in the North Carolina University Magazine, 1887-91, and from other miscellaneous sources, chiefly correspondence:

TOTAL NUMBER OF CONFEDERATE DEAD, 312. By place of residence at time of matriculation in the University :

Arkansas, i Virginia, -. 8

California, i Florida, 9

Iowa, i Mississippi, 1 1

Missouri, - i Tennessee, - 1 1

Texas, 4 Louisiana, 14

South Carolina, 5 Alabama, - 18

Georgia, - 7 North Carolina, - 221

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 * Mrs. C. P. Spencer's correspondence with author and her Last Ninety