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To Prepare Our Sons for All the Duties that May Lie before Them: The Hillsborough Military Academy and Military Education in Antebellum North Carolina
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This article examines the daily life of students at the Hillsborough Military Academy prior to and during the Civil War. The academy was created in 1859, as a place for young men to prepare themselves to serve in the United States military. After North Carolina seceded in 1861, Hillsborough Military Academy was one of the state's institutions that trained soldiers for the Confederate military and over 200 Hillsborough cadets fought for the Confederacy. The war led to the closing of the academy in 1865 and subsequent attempts to reopen after the war were unsuccessful.
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