Author: Virginia Military Institute

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-16

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780364698693

Excerpt from The Bomb, 1905 His health had been gradually failing since a severe attack of sickness in the late winter of last year, which, bringing about organic compli cations, paved the way for the undermining of his vigorous constitution to such an extent that the tender care of his devoted family and the zealous attentions of his skillful physicians were alike in vain to arrest the course of the fatal disease, which finally terminated his life at the age of sixty-four years. Thomas Middleton Semmes, born at Port Royal, Caroline County, Va., on the fourth day of September, 1840, and educated in the private schools of the city of Richmond and at Richmond College, entered the Virginia Military Institute as a member of the third class in the summer of 1857, and was. Graduated on July the fourth, 1860, his class being the largest ever turned out from this Institution up to that time. Appointed as Assistant Professor of the French Language after graduation, Lieutenant Semmes served in that capacity until the breaking out of the war between the States of the Federal Union in April, 1861. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.