Corona Female College
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Corona Female College was a female seminary, located in Corinth, Mississippi.
The school was founded by Rev. L. B. Gaston in 1857.[1] It was situated in a three-story building.[2] The college had a lyceum society and the students published a literary magazine[3] which was known as The Wreath.[4]
Its main building was commandeered by the Union Army for use as a hospital during the nearby battle of Shiloh in 1862, as was the nearby Tishomingo Hotel.[5] The Union Army evacuated the area in 1864, burning the college's building. Corona Female College never reopened.[1]
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[edit]- 1 2 Mary Carol Miller (2002). Lost Landmarks of Mississippi. Univ. Press of Mississippi. pp. 20–22. ISBN 978-1-57806-475-5. Retrieved July 28, 2012.
- ↑ Larry J. Daniel (June 12, 1998). Shiloh: The Battle That Changed the Civil War. Simon and Schuster. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-684-83857-1. Retrieved July 28, 2012.
- ↑ Jonathan Daniel Wells (October 24, 2011). Women Writers and Journalists in the Nineteenth-Century South. Cambridge University Press. p. 48. ISBN 978-1-107-01266-0. Retrieved July 28, 2012.
- ↑ "Corona Wreath". Charleston Courier. July 21, 1858. p. 1.
- ↑ Ben Wynne (November 30, 2006). Mississippi's Civil War: A Narrative History. Mercer University Press. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-88146-039-1. Retrieved July 28, 2012.
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