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Reverend D. A. Long may have been the first Confederate
officer (a lieutenant in the North Carolina Home Guards) to be president of a
northern college after the American Civil War. He was also one of Antioch's longest
tenured presidents at sixteen years. Educated at the University
of North Carolina (A.M. 1871, D.D. 1886) Long was somewhat aristocratic (he is said to
have carried a gold-topped cane and employed four servants in his home), but he spent many
of his summers tending the campus grounds by himself when the college couldn't
afford to employ a groundskeeper. An energetic leader, as president he initiated a
movement to build a monument to Horace Mann on the Antioch
campus and worked with the local chapter of the GAR to establish a memorial tablet
honoring the College's civil war dead. |
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