My School Days Reconstruction Experiences in the South
My School Days Reconstruction Experiences in the South
Wade Hampton Harris
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He found the outlook discouraging enough. He secured a vacant building, — a large barn- like structure, — collected a suflliciency of the rude benches of the times, and opened a high school. His army comrades, to a man, sent their sons to the General, and he had the largest school in that part of the State. It lasted but two short terms, however. The poverty of the people 32 GENERAL LANE 33 caused General Lane to reap his pay principally in promises, though his tuition fees had been placed at t...he starvation point. Though gentle at heart, the old warrior's soul had been embittered by the reverses of the civil strife, and he was unconsciously stern and rigor- ous in his handling of the boys. There were sev- eral adults in his advanced class, and to these he gave the soldier treatment. Many of the younger boys remember hiding their faces in terror as the General was castigating some one of the bigger boys. He used a bunch of hickories, and he would stand on tiptoe and come down at a rate war- ranted to make the dust fly.
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