CLASSES THAT DID NOT GRADUATE
From Knob Knowledge
1853 In the summer of 1852, an altercation between a cadet in the Second Class and the adjutant, who was a member of the First Class, led to the Second Classman's suspension. All the other members of the Second Class resolved to resign in a body unless their classmate was reinstated. The Board of Visitors decided to dismiss all 37 cadets in the Second Class. They were supposed to have graduated in November 1853.
1858 In September 1858, eleven cadets were suspended for refusing to follow an order by a professor "to rise and march out of the section room in a more orderly manner..." The Board of Visitors upheld dismissal of the 11 plus 13 other cadets who supported them. 23 cadets were dismissed. Ten others were not involved. One, de Caradeuc, expressed regret to the Board and was graduated in 1860.
1866-1885 Federal troops occupied The Citadel.
1898 In the 1898 incident, most of the upperclassmen were expelled, but there were still five graduates.
1944 There were only two members of the class of 1944 that graduated. The others were drafted.
(Sources: Samuel Morris, A Tale That is Told; Stories Incidents Sketches of Carolina Life, pp. 13-15. F273.M6; Oliver J. Bond, The Story of The Citadel, pp. 38-39, 42-43, 146-48.U430 .C5 S57 1989; Richard Marshall, "The Class That Did Not Graduate." Shako, Graduation, 1966, pp. 6-12; John P. Thomas, History of the South Carolina Military Academy, p. 415. U430 .S51 T55 1991; Alexander S. Macaulay, Jr., "Discipline and Rebellion: The Citadel Rebellion of 1898," South Carolina Historical Magazine, vol. 103, no. 1 (January 2002) pp. 30-47)
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