George P. C. Rumbough commencement speech manuscriptMS.0249Virginia Military Institute Archives

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This collection consists of one manuscript (10 pages) of the commencement speech delivered by VMI Cadet George P. C. Rumbough on July 4, 1856.

Biographical / Historical

George Philip Cowles Rumbough was born in 1834 in Lynchburg, Virginia. He graduated VMI in 1856. During the Civil War he was a staff officer with the Confederate States of America. After the War, he was a civil engineer and State Engineer of Arkansas. Rumbough died in 1916 in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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George P. C. Rumbough commencement speech manuscript, 1856 July 4. MS 0249. VMI Archives, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia.

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