The return of Col. Charles Tew's sword to the Citadel will be celebrated with three days of activities.
Col. Charles Courtenay Tew was a Charleston native and among the Citadel's first 26 cadets, reporting to the school in 1843. He graduated in 1846 and later taught at the Arsenal, a Columbia, S.C. military school that was the Citadel's sister institution.
The cadets there gave him the sword when he left to establish the Hillsborough Military Academy in North Carolina.
During the Civil War, Col. Tew led the 2nd North Carolina and carried the sword along with him, along with a silver cup given him by the Hillsborough cadets. Later, he decided that he could be of more use to the Confederacy by returning to teaching and submitted his resignation. before it was accepted, there came the Battle of Antietam.
--Old Secesh
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