{"id":50070,"date":"2018-11-20T13:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T19:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=50070"},"modified":"2018-11-20T11:15:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T17:15:50","slug":"i-can-see-history-walking-across-the-ole-miss-circle-by-starke-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/i-can-see-history-walking-across-the-ole-miss-circle-by-starke-miller\/","title":{"rendered":"“I Can See History Walking Across the Ole Miss Circle” by Starke Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a great picture of Ole Miss<\/strong>‘ Lyceum<\/strong> and The\u00a0Circle<\/strong>. This is probably about 1900 before the wings were added to the Lyceum in 1903.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a few days The Circle will be covered with tents and tailgaters. In my minds eye, because of all the research I have done, I can see many other events that have taken place in The Circle.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I can see pre Civil War students walking across The Circle to go to 6 am Chapel in 1855.<\/span><\/p>\n

I can see the University Greys<\/strong> drilling in The Circle, in 1861.<\/span><\/p>\n

I can see 400 sick Confederates<\/strong> in tents, the overflow from the University’s use as a hospital after Shiloh<\/strong>, in 1862.<\/span><\/p>\n

I can see thousands of Yankees<\/strong> camped here in December of 1862, when Grant<\/strong> was on his Mississippi Central Rail Road campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n

I can see Confederate Regiments of Nathan Bedford Forrest<\/strong>, camped here in the Spring of 1864, when he used Oxford and the University as a headquarters.<\/span><\/p>\n

I can see two Yankee Captains, who were sent by Union General A. J. “Whiskey” Smith<\/strong> to burn the University, “Finding only literary material and scientific apparatus”, they “refused to carry out such a vandal order”.<\/span><\/p>\n

I can see Confederate Veterans returning to the University as students, in the Fall of 1865.<\/span><\/p>\n

I can see the erection, and dedication, of the new Library (Ventress Hall<\/strong>) in 1889, completed with the University Greys Memorial Tiffany stained glass window in 1890.<\/span><\/p>\n

I can see the erection of of the Confederate Monument, at the bottom of the Circle, by the United Daughters of the Confederacy<\/strong>, to remember the dead in the campus Confederate Cemetery<\/strong> and the Confederate dead in St. Peters<\/strong> town cemetery, in 1906.<\/span><\/p>\n

I can see 2000 people gathering for speeches and an old fashioned Bar-B-Q to honor Walthall’s Mississippi Brigade<\/strong> reunion, in 1906.<\/span><\/p>\n

I can see the riot of 1962, when James Meredith<\/strong> entered the University.<\/span><\/p>\n

I can see a tailgating game day, in 1971, when I first saw it as a 6th grader, and I knew this was the place I would go to College.<\/span><\/p>\n

I can see myself as a student walking across The Circle.<\/span><\/p>\n

I can see so many Fall tailgating days here, in the 1980’s, 90’s and 00’s, when Dad and I, and a few other thousand friends, came together for another Rebel football game.<\/span><\/p>\n

I can still hear “Dixie”<\/strong> being played here by the band after an Ole Miss football win, or loss.<\/span><\/p>\n

What a historical, and magical place these few acres are!\u00a0\"The<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Starke Miller is a Civil War historian who conducts historical tours of Ole Miss and Shiloh. Check out his page on Facebook: Miller Civil War Tours.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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