Mr. Robert E. King (1901-1978) - Principal, Central High School, 1946 - 1970
Mr. King joined the Memphis City Schools as a teacher in 1924. He was a teacher at Messick High School early in his career (1930s-40s). Later, he was principal of Leroy Pope Elementary School (gone now, but was at 190 Chelsea Ave. at 3rd St). He was also principal of A. B. Hill School (Latham and Olive in S Memphis), Memphis Summer School at Memphis Technical High, and of course Central where he was principal from 1946 - 1970. He was educated at Middle Tennessee Teacher's College receiving his Bachelor's degree in 1924. Then he received his Master's degree in School Administration from the University of Missouri in 1940. He also coached at Bellevue and Messick. Mr. King succeeded the former principal of Central, Mr. Charles P. Jester, who was in that position from 1918 - 1946. In 1971 Mr. John Simonton succeeded Mr. King as principal of CHS. Mr. King was originally from Franklin, Tennessee. Mr. King is buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Memphis, TN.
Note: The exact chronology of Mr. King's career is vague in existing sources, and the order of schools here does not necessarily represent an accurate or exact chronology; but in 1930 he lived on Snowden Ave near Watkins St; in 1940 he lived on S. Highland near Midland Ave; and in 1943 he lived on Norriswood Ave near Highland St (per the US Census info for those years and the 1943 Memphis City Directory [Polk]). I've recently (12 June 2015) added an article below from the Memphis Press-Scimitar, June 8, 1946 that lists his exact history with the Memphis City Schools.
Note: The exact chronology of Mr. King's career is vague in existing sources, and the order of schools here does not necessarily represent an accurate or exact chronology; but in 1930 he lived on Snowden Ave near Watkins St; in 1940 he lived on S. Highland near Midland Ave; and in 1943 he lived on Norriswood Ave near Highland St (per the US Census info for those years and the 1943 Memphis City Directory [Polk]). I've recently (12 June 2015) added an article below from the Memphis Press-Scimitar, June 8, 1946 that lists his exact history with the Memphis City Schools.
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Memphis Press-Scimitar, June 8, 1946 - "A Golfer, a Gardener and a Father---That's Central High's New Principal"
The Commercial Appeal Memphis, Tennessee 27 Oct 1978, Fri • Page 41
Steven Marvell Prye J.D. - Class of 1970 - (1952 - 2006)
1970
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from ancestry.com
Steven M. Prye had degrees from Yale University, Harvard Law School, and New York University School of Law. After law school, he worked for various New York City law firms for several years (1980s). Then he was a law professor at Vermont Law School and at the University of Illinois. He suffered a serious illness in 2001 that left him incapacitated, and eventually he returned to Memphis where he died in January, 2006.
LAWYER SEARCHES FOR RIGHT HOME FOR AN UNUSUAL RECIPIENT
Correction:
PubDate:
Sunday, 2/8/2004 [St. Louis (MO) Post-DIspatch]
Section:
METRO
Page:
C1
Byline:
By Bill McClellan
Text:
STEVEN PRYE WAS sitting at a table in a visiting area at the Chester Mental Health Center. The center is a maximum security facility for people adjudged to have a mental illness that makes them a danger to themselves or others. In the old days, it would be called an asylum for the criminally insane.
The inmates are called recipients. They receive services. The guards are called security therapy aides. Two such aides stood behind Prye. He is a recipient. He is 51 years old, a black man, slightly built. He bobbed his head up and down. "This is a terrible mistake. I don't belong here, " he said to Tony Rothert, an attorney with the Legal Advocacy Service of the Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Commission. Prye first came to the attention of mental health authorities in January 2001. He was living in Memphis, Tenn., with his mother. Police were called to the house to assist with a foreclosure, and they discovered his mother's body in the bathtub. She had been dead for several days. She had died from natural causes. Prye was taken to a psychiatric hospital.
He was soon released from the hospital, and sent to another mental health facility. He walked away from that facility. Several months later, he was picked up by police after he entered a church late at night and set off the alarm. He was involuntarily committed to the Memphis Mental Health Institute. Medical records from that admission described him as grandiose. He claimed to be a law professor with degrees from Yale and Harvard.
He was transferred to another facility, and once again, he walked away. He went to Illinois. He ended up in a hospital in Champaign, and was then bounced back into the mental health care system. Among his problems was delusionary thinking. He said he wanted to teach law. He was given electroconvulsive therapy. The shock treatments did not work. He was not a good patient. He fought with the staff when they tried to make him take his medications. He was transferred to Chester.
The recipients at Chester are a mixed lot. About half of them come from the criminal justice system. They were either found not guilty by reason of insanity, or they were deemed incapable of standing trial. The other half are civil commitments. Many are delusional. So it is a great credit to somebody at Chester that in the midst of all these delusions, somebody called Harvard, and learned that, yes, Steven Prye is a graduate of Harvard Law School. Another call verified that he had received his undergraduate degree from Yale.
But even if his delusions aren't delusions, he still has problems. What's the state supposed to do? That's the current question. Rather, it's the second of two current questions.
"First, we have to figure out exactly what is wrong with him, " said Rothert, Prye's attorney. "If it's an organic disease, some kind of early dementia, then he should get a different type of treatment and in a much less restrictive setting. No matter what, he doesn't belong in Chester."
In search of a proper diagnosis, Rothert and his agency are turning to Dr. James Galvin from the Washington University School of Medicine's department of neurology. Galvin heads the school's Memory Diagnostic Center, and is an authority on dementia. Galvin has expressed a willingness to examine Prye, but the time has not yet been set.
In the meantime, Prye -- Harvard Law, Class of '78 -- remains at Chester.
"I want to leave today, " he said when Rothert visited Wednesday. "I'm coming with you, Tony. I am." Rothert, who has the manner of a kindly doctor, shook his head, and said that would be impossible.
Rothert stood to leave, and Prye stood up. The security therapy aides restrained him. He struggled, and his cries for help echoed in the hallway as Rothert and I walked away.
Correction:
PubDate:
Sunday, 2/8/2004 [St. Louis (MO) Post-DIspatch]
Section:
METRO
Page:
C1
Byline:
By Bill McClellan
Text:
STEVEN PRYE WAS sitting at a table in a visiting area at the Chester Mental Health Center. The center is a maximum security facility for people adjudged to have a mental illness that makes them a danger to themselves or others. In the old days, it would be called an asylum for the criminally insane.
The inmates are called recipients. They receive services. The guards are called security therapy aides. Two such aides stood behind Prye. He is a recipient. He is 51 years old, a black man, slightly built. He bobbed his head up and down. "This is a terrible mistake. I don't belong here, " he said to Tony Rothert, an attorney with the Legal Advocacy Service of the Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Commission. Prye first came to the attention of mental health authorities in January 2001. He was living in Memphis, Tenn., with his mother. Police were called to the house to assist with a foreclosure, and they discovered his mother's body in the bathtub. She had been dead for several days. She had died from natural causes. Prye was taken to a psychiatric hospital.
He was soon released from the hospital, and sent to another mental health facility. He walked away from that facility. Several months later, he was picked up by police after he entered a church late at night and set off the alarm. He was involuntarily committed to the Memphis Mental Health Institute. Medical records from that admission described him as grandiose. He claimed to be a law professor with degrees from Yale and Harvard.
He was transferred to another facility, and once again, he walked away. He went to Illinois. He ended up in a hospital in Champaign, and was then bounced back into the mental health care system. Among his problems was delusionary thinking. He said he wanted to teach law. He was given electroconvulsive therapy. The shock treatments did not work. He was not a good patient. He fought with the staff when they tried to make him take his medications. He was transferred to Chester.
The recipients at Chester are a mixed lot. About half of them come from the criminal justice system. They were either found not guilty by reason of insanity, or they were deemed incapable of standing trial. The other half are civil commitments. Many are delusional. So it is a great credit to somebody at Chester that in the midst of all these delusions, somebody called Harvard, and learned that, yes, Steven Prye is a graduate of Harvard Law School. Another call verified that he had received his undergraduate degree from Yale.
But even if his delusions aren't delusions, he still has problems. What's the state supposed to do? That's the current question. Rather, it's the second of two current questions.
"First, we have to figure out exactly what is wrong with him, " said Rothert, Prye's attorney. "If it's an organic disease, some kind of early dementia, then he should get a different type of treatment and in a much less restrictive setting. No matter what, he doesn't belong in Chester."
In search of a proper diagnosis, Rothert and his agency are turning to Dr. James Galvin from the Washington University School of Medicine's department of neurology. Galvin heads the school's Memory Diagnostic Center, and is an authority on dementia. Galvin has expressed a willingness to examine Prye, but the time has not yet been set.
In the meantime, Prye -- Harvard Law, Class of '78 -- remains at Chester.
"I want to leave today, " he said when Rothert visited Wednesday. "I'm coming with you, Tony. I am." Rothert, who has the manner of a kindly doctor, shook his head, and said that would be impossible.
Rothert stood to leave, and Prye stood up. The security therapy aides restrained him. He struggled, and his cries for help echoed in the hallway as Rothert and I walked away.
Prye obit - The Commercial Appeal - died of kidney failure it says (15 Jan 2006)
Here it is in full. . .buried in Union Cemetery in Shelby Co TN @ 4393 Pleasant Ridge Rd, Millington, TN 38053 - seems that there is NO marker for him there based on info at Find-a-Grave.com = https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/1997080/memorial-search?firstName=&lastName=&page=14#sr-19993739
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OBITUARY FOR STEVEN MARVEL PRYE
__________________________________________________________
Legal scholar Prye lived life to teach, learn
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN) - January 15, 2006
Author/Byline: Jon W. Sparks [email protected]
Edition: Final
Section: Metro
Page: B5
Readability: 9-12 grade level (Lexile: 1120)
Steven Marvell Prye was a gifted attorney who was among the first black students to desegregate Central High School and was later
known as a legal academic and commentator.
Mr. Prye, 53, died of kidney failure Jan. 9 at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis.
In 1990, he wrote a Viewpoint column for The Commercial Appeal remembering his days as a reluctant pioneer at Central.
"As a straight-A student at Central, I found myself tagged as a 'first black' in a number of previously all-white honorary societies and
organizations. It pained me to no end to sit through group photography sessions having the only black face in the group."
Mr. Prye graduated with honors from Yale University where he majored in literature and psychology. He graduated from Harvard Law
School where he was senior editor of the Harvard Civil Rights/Civil Liberties Review. He later received an LLM degree from New York
University School of Law.
He practiced in New York City, focusing on taxation and estate planning. For many years he wrote the Estate Planning column in the
Business section of The Commercial Appeal and also appeared on the "Good Morning Memphis" show on Fox 13 WHBQ-TV.
He later concentrated on academia, teaching at Vermont Law School and the University of Illinois School of Law.
He developed a strong interest in the law during high school. "He was real studious and intellectual," said his sister, Beverly Prye. "He
always liked to have people around to teach."
He was a devout Baptist and loved the Bible.
"He loved to read," his sister said. "He had a photographic memory and often quoted Shakespeare or something from 20 years before.
And he only listened to classical music. He loved Beethoven and Bach."
Services are 1 p.m. today at Auston-Victory Funeral Home with burial in Union Cemetery.
Caption: Photo Steven M. Prye
Memo: Obituary
Index terms: memphis
Record: 10F3096B2E6C75E0
Copyright: Copyright (c) 2006 The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN
Here it is in full. . .buried in Union Cemetery in Shelby Co TN @ 4393 Pleasant Ridge Rd, Millington, TN 38053 - seems that there is NO marker for him there based on info at Find-a-Grave.com = https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/1997080/memorial-search?firstName=&lastName=&page=14#sr-19993739
__________________________________________________________
OBITUARY FOR STEVEN MARVEL PRYE
__________________________________________________________
Legal scholar Prye lived life to teach, learn
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN) - January 15, 2006
Author/Byline: Jon W. Sparks [email protected]
Edition: Final
Section: Metro
Page: B5
Readability: 9-12 grade level (Lexile: 1120)
Steven Marvell Prye was a gifted attorney who was among the first black students to desegregate Central High School and was later
known as a legal academic and commentator.
Mr. Prye, 53, died of kidney failure Jan. 9 at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis.
In 1990, he wrote a Viewpoint column for The Commercial Appeal remembering his days as a reluctant pioneer at Central.
"As a straight-A student at Central, I found myself tagged as a 'first black' in a number of previously all-white honorary societies and
organizations. It pained me to no end to sit through group photography sessions having the only black face in the group."
Mr. Prye graduated with honors from Yale University where he majored in literature and psychology. He graduated from Harvard Law
School where he was senior editor of the Harvard Civil Rights/Civil Liberties Review. He later received an LLM degree from New York
University School of Law.
He practiced in New York City, focusing on taxation and estate planning. For many years he wrote the Estate Planning column in the
Business section of The Commercial Appeal and also appeared on the "Good Morning Memphis" show on Fox 13 WHBQ-TV.
He later concentrated on academia, teaching at Vermont Law School and the University of Illinois School of Law.
He developed a strong interest in the law during high school. "He was real studious and intellectual," said his sister, Beverly Prye. "He
always liked to have people around to teach."
He was a devout Baptist and loved the Bible.
"He loved to read," his sister said. "He had a photographic memory and often quoted Shakespeare or something from 20 years before.
And he only listened to classical music. He loved Beethoven and Bach."
Services are 1 p.m. today at Auston-Victory Funeral Home with burial in Union Cemetery.
Caption: Photo Steven M. Prye
Memo: Obituary
Index terms: memphis
Record: 10F3096B2E6C75E0
Copyright: Copyright (c) 2006 The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN
The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee, Sunday, June 18, 1978, Page 13
The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee, Monday, Oct 8, 199-, Page 7
Elizabeth Ann Rich M.D. - Class of 1970 - (1951 - 1998)
1970
- Expertise: An associate professor with tenure in the pulmonary division of the Department of Medicine at CWRU and University Hospitals of Cleveland, she also was a member of the executive committee for the Center for AIDS Research and directed the biosafety level 3 facility, a specialized laboratory for the handling of HIV, virulent TB bacteria, and other infectious agents.
- Circumstance of Death: She was killed in a traffic accident while visiting family in Tennessee (July 10, 1998 - Elizabeth A. Rich, MD, 46 )
About Elizabeth A. Rich, MD
Elizabeth A. Rich, MD, was born in Baton Rouge, LA and earned her bachelors degree from Memphis State. She went on to received her MD from the University of Tennessee and completed her internship and residency at the City of Memphis Hospital. When she finished her residency, she pursued her love of the violin for six months in France, returning to conduct research in laboratories at the University of Tennessee while supporting herself by moonlighting in the emergency room. Elizabeth’s goal was to become a first rate pulmonary immunologist, and in 1982 she moved to Case Western Reserve University for a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. She soon became an independent world renowned expert in the pulmonary alveolar macrophage, tuberculosis, and AIDS. Her research portfolio grew to include major research programs in tuberculosis and AIDS, and her laboratory attracted numerous trainees, whom she mentored with characteristic respect, verve, and vision.
Elizabeth’s personal creativity spilled into her work and was characterized by novel thinking and insights into the function of the lung. Her dedication to finding the truth, her willingness to question dogma (including her own), her sly sense of humor, and her full engagement in life made her a sought-after mentor and treasured friend. At the time of her death, Elizabeth’s grant portfolio totaled about four million dollars and included, near and dear to her heart, a T32 training grant in pulmonary immunology. She was killed in a traffic accident in July of 1998, at the age of 46, and left a considerable scientific and personal legacy.
Written by Pamela David, MD, PhD (Elizabeth was Pamela’s former fellow)
https://www.thoracic.org/members/membership/elizabeth-rich-award.php
Last Reviewed: December 2017
Elizabeth A. Rich, MD, was born in Baton Rouge, LA and earned her bachelors degree from Memphis State. She went on to received her MD from the University of Tennessee and completed her internship and residency at the City of Memphis Hospital. When she finished her residency, she pursued her love of the violin for six months in France, returning to conduct research in laboratories at the University of Tennessee while supporting herself by moonlighting in the emergency room. Elizabeth’s goal was to become a first rate pulmonary immunologist, and in 1982 she moved to Case Western Reserve University for a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. She soon became an independent world renowned expert in the pulmonary alveolar macrophage, tuberculosis, and AIDS. Her research portfolio grew to include major research programs in tuberculosis and AIDS, and her laboratory attracted numerous trainees, whom she mentored with characteristic respect, verve, and vision.
Elizabeth’s personal creativity spilled into her work and was characterized by novel thinking and insights into the function of the lung. Her dedication to finding the truth, her willingness to question dogma (including her own), her sly sense of humor, and her full engagement in life made her a sought-after mentor and treasured friend. At the time of her death, Elizabeth’s grant portfolio totaled about four million dollars and included, near and dear to her heart, a T32 training grant in pulmonary immunology. She was killed in a traffic accident in July of 1998, at the age of 46, and left a considerable scientific and personal legacy.
Written by Pamela David, MD, PhD (Elizabeth was Pamela’s former fellow)
https://www.thoracic.org/members/membership/elizabeth-rich-award.php
Last Reviewed: December 2017
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=26178136&ref=acom
Laura Lynn Stegbauer Moore R.N. - Class of 1970 - (1952 - 2014)
1970
LAURA STEGBAUER MOORE
SHREVEPORT, LA - A memorial service for Laura Stegbauer Moore will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, October 4, 2014 at Rose-Neath Funeral Home, 1815 Marshall Street, Shreveport, LA. The family will receive visitors at 9:30 a.m. until service time on Saturday.
Laura was born December 19, 1952 to Frank Tamble and Carrie Marinus Stegbauer in Memphis, TN and passed away in Shreveport on October 1, 2014. She was preceded in death by her parents. Left to cherish her memory is her husband, Dr. Michael R. Moore, Sr., sons, Michael Rawls Moore, Jr. and his wife, Kate LaRiche-Moore of Portland, OR, Dr. Frank Newland Moore of Denver, CO; daughter, Laura Elizabeth Moore of Shreveport, LA; sister, Mary Elizabeth Collins of St. Paul, MN; brothers, William D. Stegbauer and his wife, Cheryl, of Memphis, TN and John F. Stegbauer of Pass Christian, MS; grandchildren, Etta and Iris Moore and numerous nieces, nephews.
Laura was a dedicated oncology nurse and office manager for 25 years, and a volunteer with the Caddo-Bossier Cancer Foundation League. She was a treasured wife and mother, an advocate for cancer patients, and a loving and energetic partner to her husband and children in all of their endeavors. Her loss is profound, and she will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved her.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Caddo- Bossier Cancer Foundation League (2900 Wheeless Ave, Shereveport, LA 71104), Robinson's Rescue (2515 Line Ave, Shreveport, LA 71104) or the YMCA Family Violence Program (709 Travis Street, Shreveport, LA 71101).
SHREVEPORT, LA - A memorial service for Laura Stegbauer Moore will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, October 4, 2014 at Rose-Neath Funeral Home, 1815 Marshall Street, Shreveport, LA. The family will receive visitors at 9:30 a.m. until service time on Saturday.
Laura was born December 19, 1952 to Frank Tamble and Carrie Marinus Stegbauer in Memphis, TN and passed away in Shreveport on October 1, 2014. She was preceded in death by her parents. Left to cherish her memory is her husband, Dr. Michael R. Moore, Sr., sons, Michael Rawls Moore, Jr. and his wife, Kate LaRiche-Moore of Portland, OR, Dr. Frank Newland Moore of Denver, CO; daughter, Laura Elizabeth Moore of Shreveport, LA; sister, Mary Elizabeth Collins of St. Paul, MN; brothers, William D. Stegbauer and his wife, Cheryl, of Memphis, TN and John F. Stegbauer of Pass Christian, MS; grandchildren, Etta and Iris Moore and numerous nieces, nephews.
Laura was a dedicated oncology nurse and office manager for 25 years, and a volunteer with the Caddo-Bossier Cancer Foundation League. She was a treasured wife and mother, an advocate for cancer patients, and a loving and energetic partner to her husband and children in all of their endeavors. Her loss is profound, and she will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved her.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Caddo- Bossier Cancer Foundation League (2900 Wheeless Ave, Shereveport, LA 71104), Robinson's Rescue (2515 Line Ave, Shreveport, LA 71104) or the YMCA Family Violence Program (709 Travis Street, Shreveport, LA 71101).
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?pid=172663620
Don Edgar Goodloe (HS School Teacher, Singer, and Artist) - Class of 1970 - (1953 - 2015)
1970
DON EDGAR GOODLOE, 62, died April 7, 2015. Visitation, 3 -5 p.m., Sunday, April 12 at N.J. Ford & Sons Parkway Chapel. Service, 11 a.m., Monday, April 13 at Martin Memorial Temple CME Church, 65 S. Parkway W. Burial in Forest Hill Cemetery. N.J. Ford & Sons Funeral Home - (901) 948-7755
April 18, 2015
I have known Don for over twenty years, and I must say that he was the most authentic, artistic, and creative man that God put on this earth.
Anfra Boyd
Inkster, Michigan
April 14, 2015
Don was my friend for life. He was an amazing artist in many ways. We met at Knoxville College. He was so very encouraging to my career as a vocalist. When we last spoke I asked him to sing his signature song, "Together in Peace." No one has and in my opinion can deliver the love in a song as he did. I will never forget him.
Rosalyn Stuckey-Collins
Snellville, Georgia
http://www.legacy.com/guestbooks/commercialappeal/don-edgar-goodloe-condolences/174592095?cid=full#sthash.5Rn9mlGq.dpuf
April 18, 2015
I have known Don for over twenty years, and I must say that he was the most authentic, artistic, and creative man that God put on this earth.
Anfra Boyd
Inkster, Michigan
April 14, 2015
Don was my friend for life. He was an amazing artist in many ways. We met at Knoxville College. He was so very encouraging to my career as a vocalist. When we last spoke I asked him to sing his signature song, "Together in Peace." No one has and in my opinion can deliver the love in a song as he did. I will never forget him.
Rosalyn Stuckey-Collins
Snellville, Georgia
http://www.legacy.com/guestbooks/commercialappeal/don-edgar-goodloe-condolences/174592095?cid=full#sthash.5Rn9mlGq.dpuf
Jean Whitaker Denman (Writer) - Class of 1970 - (1951 - 2015)
1970
"The University Greys" - Whitaker Denman
Publication Date: 1 Dec 2013
Except for a handful of boys, in early 1861 the entire student body and faculty of the college of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi joined the Confederate cause and went to Virginia to fight the federal invaders; this is about their exploits through Gettysburg. Throughout we meet the boys and learn of many fates. There is Jerry Gage whose letter to his mother he dictated to his attending physician as he lay dying. We meet 13 year old Ben Griffin, shot dead giving water to the wounded on the battlefield. Their fate and that of others in Company A is revealed.
During "Pickett's Charge" the "Greys," as they became known, suffered 100% casualties. They were the only unit In the entire war on either side to suffer this fate. We experience their fighting first at Bull Run then at Antietam, Gaines Mill and many smaller battles.
In the book, one follows the charge at Gettysburg step by step and sees the carnage and feels the shot and shell all the while watching the eight members of the 11th drop dead as they carried the regimental battle flag. We see the South sundered and later we see the catastrophe that was Reconstruction. Witness the death of thousands and learn of the death of black citizens left to die by the Yankee invaders.
Publication Date: 1 Dec 2013
Except for a handful of boys, in early 1861 the entire student body and faculty of the college of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi joined the Confederate cause and went to Virginia to fight the federal invaders; this is about their exploits through Gettysburg. Throughout we meet the boys and learn of many fates. There is Jerry Gage whose letter to his mother he dictated to his attending physician as he lay dying. We meet 13 year old Ben Griffin, shot dead giving water to the wounded on the battlefield. Their fate and that of others in Company A is revealed.
During "Pickett's Charge" the "Greys," as they became known, suffered 100% casualties. They were the only unit In the entire war on either side to suffer this fate. We experience their fighting first at Bull Run then at Antietam, Gaines Mill and many smaller battles.
In the book, one follows the charge at Gettysburg step by step and sees the carnage and feels the shot and shell all the while watching the eight members of the 11th drop dead as they carried the regimental battle flag. We see the South sundered and later we see the catastrophe that was Reconstruction. Witness the death of thousands and learn of the death of black citizens left to die by the Yankee invaders.
http://www.amazon.com/The-University-Greys-Whitaker-Denman-ebook/dp/B00BXS998W
Masonics laying the Cornerstone of the US Customs House, Memphis, TN - June 24, 1879
"The National Treasure" of Memphis - He Who Uncovers the Wonders Buried Beneath the "Stone of Memphis" Shall Uncover the Secrets of Yore
Memphis Daily Appeal, June 25, 1879, Image 4 - "Memphis Redivivus" ("Returned to Life")