The University of Georgia Also Has the Great Seal of the Confederacy

The Hargrett  Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the Univ. of Georgia also has the Great Seal of the Confederacy.

The site shows a photo of it and  the inscription by it.  I am not sure if this is the original or a copy of it.  The site doesn't say.

The inscription reads:

Presented to the University of Georgia
Memorial Day April 26, 1945
in memory of
JAMES EVERARD BLACKSHEAR
Youth Soldier in the Army of
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA

--Old Secesh

The Constitution of the Confederacy-- Part 2: Manuscripts Sold in 1883

Felix G. De Fontaine found the Constitutions in boxes which had been abandoned at the train station by fleeing Confederate troops.  Also were other records of the Confederate government which were being sent south after the evacuation of Richmond earlier that month.

De Fontaine sold the manuscript copy of the Provisional Constitution at auction in New York in 1883.    It is now in the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond.  He sold the manuscript copy of the Permanent Confederate Constitution to  Mrs. George Wymberley Jones DeRenne on July 4, 1883.

The University of Georgia purchased the Constitution from the DeRenne family in 1939.

So It Is At UGA.  --Old SeConst

Chester, S.C., End of the War-- Part 3: The Provisional and Permanent Constitutions of the Confederacy

Not only was the treasury of the Confederacy on the train, but also many important documents including both the  provisional and permanent Confederate Constitutions and the Great Seal of the Confederacy.

The Constitutions were recovered and kept safe by Felix Gregory  DeFontaine, who later sold them to museums.  The provisional one ended up in the Confederate Museum in Richmond, Va., and the permanent one  is now owned by the University of Georgia.

--Old Secesh

University of Georgia's Slavery and Confederate Connections-- Part 3: Must Change Name and History

And then, further damning the University of Georgia (of course, anything dealing with these two things must be erased), several buildings on campus are named after Confederates or white supremacists.

Grady Smith School of Journalism--  Henry Grady, manager editor of the Atlanta Constitution was a white supremacist.

Hoke Smith Annex houses the College of Agriculture and Environmental Science Cooperative Extension service.  In the 1906 election for governor, he wanted to disenfranchise blacks.

Mell Hall--  Patrick Hues Mell, wrote the treatise "Slavery, neither a Moral, Political, Nor Social Evil."

Actually, the University of Georgia, under the current climate and regards to all its past sins, must change its name and erase all history, including sports, before 1961, and maybe even to today.

After All, We Must Not Offend.  --Old Secesh

University of Georgia's Slavery and Confederate Connections-- Part 2: Students Joined the Confederate Army

There are also traces of the Confederacy around campus.  The monument across from the famous Arch honors Athens residents who served in the Confederacy.  The plaque at the entrance to North Campus honors Confederates as well.

It states:  "During the War for Southern Independence most of the students entered into the Confederate Army.  The University closed its doors in 1864 and did not open again until January 1866.  After the war, many Confederate veterans became students."

--Old Secesh

University of Georgia's Confederate and Slavery Connections-- Part 1: Slaves Once Worked on Campus

From the Red & Black, University of Georgia student newspaper, "Before Holmes and Hunter:  Students look at UGA's history of segregation and slavery" by Hannah Echols.

Many think that the University of Georgia's black history began with the entrance of Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter, the first blacks to enroll at the school in 1961.

But black history goes back to the school's earliest days.  Enslaved people played a pivotal role in the building and maintaining of the campus.  They stoked fires, carried water, rang the chapel bell and constructed buildings.  The only time they were allowed on campus, however, was to perform prescribed duties, then they had to leave.

--Old Secesh

The Sad Fate of UGA's Dixie Redcoat Marching Band

Still on the subject of the removal of the Confederate flag from the top of the General Lee car in "The Dukes of Hazzard."

Something like this happened with the University of Georgia's marching band, which was established in 1905 as part of the UGA Military Science Department.  Since then, it has grown from 20 cadets to over 400 and is nationally-known.  It was originally called The Dixie Redcoat Marching Band.

Only, today it is called The Redcoat Marching Band.  Back in the '70s, the word Dixie became a racially-charged epitaph and was dropped along with the playing of "Dixie."  A lot of people, including myself as I was a student there at the time were definitely not happy with the decisions.

I remember a political cartoon in the student newspaper in the time that particularly hit the point.  It went something like this:

First, some were offended by the word Dixie in the band's name, so that was dropped and it became just The Redcoat Marching Band.

Second, someone remembered that British troops wore red coats and we had to fight them for our independence so that was dropped and it became The Marching Band.

Oh, my, then someone else said that marching was militaristic so that had to be dropped and UGA's band became The Band.

Then, someone remembered their ancestors were killed by a band of Indians, so that had to be dropped. 

Not True, of course, but it could happen.

Now, "The" performs at half time.

Wait, yet another person hates short words so the The was also dropped.  Now       performs at half time.  Let's hope no one objects to empty space.

Now, Is Everybody Real Happy?  --Old Secsh