Confederate Stained Glass Window, Ventress Hall
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Creation Date
9-28-2011
Description
"Assisted by donations from the university's Class of 1877 and the Alumni Association, funds grew sufficiently large enough by 1890 to install a $500 Tiffany window on the stair landing of the newly constructed campus library. In the right hand panel, a Confederate formation drills before a civilian audience in front of the campus observatory, while the middle section portrays the two opposing forces fighting with sabers. Correspondence between a university official and a glass company suggests that the left hand panel of a man mounted on horseback leading foot soldiers away represents Lee's surrender at Appomattox."
Echoes of the lost cause : Civil War reverberations in Mississippi from 1865 to 2001 / Sally Leigh McWhite (2002). Page 29.
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