2A - Friday, November 3, 2006 MONDAY: Ten Spot TUESDAY: Arbor Anecdotes Civil War touched all at 'U' More than half of students enlisted It was 1861. The nickname "the Wol- verines" had just been coined. The 44- year-old University only admitted men. A complete college education cost as little as $10. Cheap as it was, an education was far from the only thing on students' minds. On April 15, then-University President Henry Tappan announced the start of the Civil War to a large crowd gathered in the Ann Arbor Courthouse Square. More than half of the 152 students enrolled in the colleges of Literature, Law and Medicine immediately left the University to enlist in the services. Students who chose not to enlist right away went on to lead a sheltered life at the University, but the shadow of the war constantly loomed. James Guthrie, who graduated from the Medical School in 1862, wrote in his surgical diary that medical students on campus "realized the role that they would be called upon to fill and the question was not whether but rather when?" University administrators encouraged students to complete their education before leaving to fight. Student George Robinson wrote his sister in June 1861, telling her that he "should like to enlist now but President Tappan tells us to stay in college till we graduate." Nearly every student enrolled in a University battalion, anticipating the need for their services upon gradua- tion. Professors wrote letters of recom- mendation for students who hoped to fill leadership roles in the infantry. In the meantime, students stayed occupied with lectures and studies as they filled journals with extensive class notes and doodles about home, love and war. Like most students, one letter writ- er hoped his University education would allow him to someday "be able to do something for the cause of our Country more than we could to enter the ranks now." ANDREA COOMBES - Information for this article was gath- ered from documents in the Bentley Histori- cal Library. The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 413 E. 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