SULLIVAN, ALGERNON SYDNEY
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1826-1887. New York attorney and judge, philanthropist. Sympathetic toward the Southern cause in the Civil War, he was briefly imprisoned for disdloyalty by Lincoln's government in 1861. Sullivan and his wife Mary Mildred Hammond Sullivan raised money to assist impoverished Southerners after the war. Algernon Sullivan became president of the New York Southern Society. In 1925 the Society established annual awards in the form of bronze medallions to honor Sullivan. Sullivan Awards have been awarded at The Citadel since 1933 to students or others in recognition of excellence of character and service to humanity. (Sources: The Guidon, 2002-2003, pp. 189-190; Algernon Sydney Sullivan, by Anne Middleton Holmes. CT275 .S92 H6; Algernon Sydney Sullivan. LC243 .A43 1986) (DH)
