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Stories
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.
Princeton and the Civil War
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The Civil War divided Princeton as well as the United States along regional lines, complicating the university’s patriotic history of wartime service as students and alumni fought in both the Union and Confederate forces.
Counting Princetonians in the Civil War
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Extensive research by the Princeton University Archives staff has determined that over 600 Princeton students and alumni fought in the Civil War. Of these, 86 died in the conflict—47 for the Confederacy, and 39 for the Union.
Stephen Alexander and Alfred Scudder
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Stephen Alexander, Princeton’s first astronomy professor, held moderate antislavery views but denied the equality of Black and white Americans. At the same time, he may have employed an African American man named Alfred Scudder as an assistant on campus.
Primary Sources
Headstone of John Pierre Burr
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Headstone of John Pierre Burr, the son of Princeton alumnus and Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr Jr.
Mary Dod Brown Chapel
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Lincoln University's Mary Dod Brown Chapel, endowed by the sister of Princeton professor Albert Dod.
James Moore Wayne
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A daguerreotype of James Moore Wayne, Princeton class of 1808.
Portrait of Joseph Henry
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An early daguerreotype of Professor Joseph Henry.
View of Pyne Library
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Photograph of Pyne Library on Princeton's main campus.