"In the Old Corps, by the Book: Citadel Cadet Life in The '60s" authored by Dr. Ed H West, '66, was published by Authors Publishing House.

December 10, 2025

Chace M.C. Cooper, '23, director of business development at Double E Financial Solutions, was featured in a CBSNews.com article on credit card debt relief.

December 9, 2025

Timothy Street, '44, was born on December 9, 1923,. He and his classmates, the Class That Never Was, were called to active duty in May 1943 at the end of their junior year. An interview with Mr. Street from October 2008 is here: lcdl.library.cofc.edu

December 8, 2025

On December 8, 1941, the United States declared war on Japan and, the following spring, the Class of 1944 was called to serve in World War II. They are known as The Class That Never Was. today.citadel.edu/remembering-the-class-that-never-was

The only enrolled cadet to be killed in action during the Civil War was W.J.B. Patterson, Class of 1865, who died on December 7, 1864 as a result of injuries at the Battle of Tulifinny. He was buried in his family’s plot in an unmarked grave in Magnolia Cemetery on December 17, 1864. The Fort Sumter Civil War Round Table obtained a marker from the Veterans Administration, dedicated on November 14, 2021. The engagement at Tulifinny Creek is of historic importance because it involved the deployment of the entire Battalion of State Cadets from The Citadel and Arsenal Academies as an independent military unit engaged in armed combat with Union forces. In December of 1864, the Governor of South Carolina ordered the Battalion of State Cadets from The Citadel and Arsenal to deploy to Tulifinny Creek south of Charleston to reinforce Confederate troops defending a key railroad bridge against a much larger advancing Union force. On December 7, the Battalion of State Cadets, along with Confederate militia units from North and South Carolina and Georgia, engaged a much larger Union force in pitched battle for several hours, advancing against rifle and cannon fire and forcing the federal troops back to their entrenchments. On December 9, the battalion of cadets successfully repulsed a Union counter-attack on their defensive position by the railroad trestle with their disciplined rifle fire. The Battalion of State Cadets suffered eight casualties in the engagement, including one killed, and were commended by Major General Samuel Jones, CSA, Commanding General of South Carolina and Georgia Departments, for their gallantry under fire. A mural depicting the December 9th engagement at the Tulifinny Creek railroad trestle is on display in the Daniel Library.

1LT Frank Monroe (Skip) Murphy, USA, '65, was killed in action on December 7, 1966, in South Vietnam by a land mine while rescuing members of his platoon who were in a firefight after being jumped from behind by the Vietcong. Murphy is memorialized along with 2ndLt Joseph C. Missar, USMC, '65, with a bronze statue, located in Johnson Hagood Stadium, in the photograph here. Missar was killed in action by a mine in the Quan Nam Province of Vietnam on May 6, 1966. The statue honors all Citadel Alumni who died in the Vietnam War.