The Story of the Citadel

By: Col. O.J. Bond, Orig. Pub. 1936, Reprinted 2021, 280 pages, E-BOOK, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-371-9.   This is the story, told by it former President, of a remarkable institution; one of the last reaming state -assisted military colleges in America. Beginning with the account of an aborted slave insurrection in June 1822, the author tells in detail of the city of Charleston, and of a later decision by the State Legislature to use the facility, as well as an arsenal in Columbia, to e