25Results for "1863"
Stories
Princeton and Mississippi
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Princeton students and their families lived in the Mississippi area decades before statehood in 1817. From the 1790s to the Civil War, Mississippians at the College of New Jersey came from elite families who built their wealth on cotton and slave labor.
The Potter Family of Prospect and Palmer Houses
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Prospect House and Palmer House, both now University properties, have deep links to the Potters—a slaveholding family with strong ties to Georgia as well as to Princeton and the College of New Jersey.
Lincoln and the Election of 1860
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Princeton students engaged in heated debates over slavery during the contentious 1860 election, in which New Jersey was the only northern state where Abraham Lincoln lost the popular vote.
Moses Taylor Pyne and the Sugar Plantations of the Americas
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The financial contributions of Moses Taylor Pyne (Class of 1877), one of Princeton's most prominent benefactors, reveal the complex relationship between Princeton, the American sugar trade, and the slave economy.
The Civil War Comes to Princeton in 1861
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Tensions between Unionist and Secessionist students reached their peak in 1861, shortly after the outbreak of the Civil War.
Primary Sources
Prospect House in 1863
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Albumen print of Prospect House.
Sketch of Dabney Carr Harrison
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A tribute to Princeton alumnus Dabney Carr Harrison ('1848), a Presbyterian minister who died in the Civil War fighting for the Confederate cause.
John H. Potter
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Albumen print of Georgia native John H. Potter (class of 1863).
Autograph Book Entry by Roland Cox
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Autograph book entry by Roland Cox (class of 1863) to Ewing Graham McClure ('1862).