Honoris Causa

Honorary Degrees Awarded to Confederates

“Recipients of Honorary Degrees,” Sewanee Alumni News, 1957

Sources for Further Reading

  1. “Recipients of Honorary Degrees, 1869-1957.” in Sewanee Alumni News: University of the South, 1957.
  2. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/elliott-robert-woodward-barnwell
  3. https://meridiana.sewanee.edu/2020/03/24/in-their-own-words-stephen-elliott-that-the-past-may-be-vindicated/
  4. https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/beckwith-john-watrus
  5. http://anglicanhistory.org/usa/ctquintard/gailor_sewanee.html
  6. https://archivesguides.sewanee.edu/repositories/5/resources/62
  7. https://www.nps.gov/vick/learn/historyculture/francis-asbury-shoup.htm
  8. https://archive.org/details/deathresurrectio0000coll
  9. https://msgw.org/pontotoc/wpa/wpahomesindiantrail.htm
  10. https://archivesguides.sewanee.edu/repositories/5/resources/26
  11. https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/watson-alfred-augustin
  12. https://slavery.princeton.edu/stories/gildersleeve
  13. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4233606?seq=3
  14. M.G. Kirby Koski to Arthur Ben Chitty, 1964.
  15. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Makers_of_America/yDo6VhLx6fEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Edwin+gardner+weed%22&pg=PA90-IA14&printsec=frontcover
  16. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/johnston-james-steptoe
  17. https://leefamilyarchive.org/reference/misc/fenner/index.html
  18. https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/murdoch-francis-johnstone
  19. “Some of the Forefathers of Anderson County,” The Piedmont Historical Society Quarterly Vol. 2, No. 3 (July 1984): 114.
  20. Ancestry 1860 slave schedules
  21. Lilla McLure and J. Ed Howe, History of Shreveport and Shreveport builders (Shreveport, 1937): 256.
  22. Powers, William Dudley. Uncle Isaac; Or, Old Days in the South. A Remembrance of the South. United States: B.F. Johnson Publishing Company, 1899.
  23. “Commencement Exercises,” Sewanee Daily Purple, June 27, 1902.
  24. 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedule for Lynchburg, Campbell County Virginia, p. 16 of 34.
  25. Proceedings of the New England Historic Genealogical Society at the Annual Meeting, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1908.
  26. https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/patterson-george
  27. https://archive.org/details/scripturedoctrin00unse/mode/2up
  28. https://www.fjc.gov/node/1387851
  29. “Latest Gleanings,” Boston Evening Transcript, May 15, 1894.
  30. 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedule for Eastern District, Westmoreland, Virginia, USA, p. 36-38
  31. 1850 Slave Schedules, Loudoun County VA, 301.
  32. Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, ed. H. Levin. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1897, 138.
  33. https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/members_text.aspx
  34. Proceedings of the Board of Trustees of the University of the South, 1897-1899: 5
  35. IBID: 82
  36. Matthew Page Andrews, Tercentenary History of Maryland, Volume 2. S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1925: 491.
  37. McDonough, Christopher M. “Some Late Sonnets of Gildersleeve Found at Sewanee,” The American Journal of Philology 127, no. 2 (2006): 293–303. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3804913: 297.
  38. 1840 U.S. Federal Census, Fauquier County, Hamilton; 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Fauquier County, Turner's Slave Schedule
  39. https://teva.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15138coll1/id/96/
  40. Proceedings of the Board of Trustees of the University of the South, 1900-1903: 23.
  41. Proceedings of the Board of Trustees of the University of the South, 1900-1903: 26.
  42. Proceedings of the Board of Trustees of the University of the South, 1900-1903: 5
  43. 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedule for Fairfield, Fairfield County, South Carolina.
  44. Letter to Arthur Ben Chitty from Mrs. Lawrence Dilworth, January 19, 1953.
  45. “McKim, Randolph Harrison, 1842-1920.” https://mds.marshall.edu/mckim_randolphharrison/.
  46. “Commencement Sunday Service,” The Sewanee Purple, July 3, 1908.
  47. Randolph Harrison McKim, A Soldier's Recollections: Leaves From the Diary of a Young Confederate, with an Oration on the Motives and Aims of the Soldiers of the South, 1910.
  48. https://deadconfederates.com/2010/07/12/william-stewart-simkins-the-klan-and-the-law-school/.
  49. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/simkins-william-stewart.