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JOHN TYLER, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
In 1861, it shared in all the excitement of the approaching Civil War. The college contributed all its students and professors to the Southern army, as the old city contributed all its able-bodied citizens. During the war its churches and the college were occupied as
