Notebook, 1849-1851

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The notebook includes:

Accounts of Corps of Cadets trips to Richmond, Petersburg, Norfolk and Rockbridge Alum Springs, Virginia
Cadet poetry and essays
Poetry by Sara Henderson Smith
Addresses delivered before the Cadet Dialectic Society (a literary and debating society)
Discussion of exams (1851) in English and natural philosophy
Account of "An Oyster Supper---A Frolic After Taps"
Account of "our last bible recitation" in which Philip C. Gibbs describes the last session of his cadetship with Superintendent Francis H. Smith