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In all, seventy-four southern cadets resigned
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and were dismissed for refusing
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to take the Oath of Allegiance to the United States;
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but twenty-one southern cadets, from slave states,
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remained and would eventually fight for the Union.
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This was a far higher proportion of loyalist
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than southern students at Harvard, yale or Columbia.
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At Princeton not one southern student remained at the college
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it's an old southern tradition at Princeton,
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make no mistake.
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There are many extraordinary
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witnesses to these breakups at West Point.