66 EDUCATION. 



Surgeon's Mates. — Adam Alexander, Nathan Brownson, 



James Houstoun, Thomas Davenport, Frederick Ridgley, 



Wood. 



Legionary Corps. — James Jackson, Colonel; Thomas 

 Washington, Major. 



Captains. — Henry Alison, Sherwood Bugg, John Morri- 

 son, James Stallings, John Lyons. 



Lieutenants. — Thomas Hamilton, Ezekiel Stallings, Benja- 

 min Hawkins, Stephen Blount, Benjamin Harvey, Nicholas 

 Millar. 



Artillery. — Major, Roman de Lisle. 



Captains. — Edward Young, John Fraser. 



Colonels. — Samuel Jack, John Stewart. 



Lieut. Colonel. — Elijah Clark. 



EDUCATION. 



The following extracts from a Discourse delivered before 

 the Georgia Historical Society on the 12th day of February, 

 1845, by Dr. Church, President of the University of Georgia, 

 contains an epitome of the history of Education in our State. 



Though our State laboured under peculiar difficulties, dur- 

 ing her colonial existence, and for a considerable period after 

 our independence, its history shows that our fathers were not 

 less attentive to the great subject of general education, than 

 were those who first settled our sister States. 



There are, I doubt not, many important and interesting 

 facts, as well as many records, which may, and I hope will be 

 brought forth, and which will show, that had we carried out 

 the views of her early patriots, and the framers of our first 

 Constitution, Georgia would now have a system of education, 

 equal, if not superior, to that of any State in the Union. We 

 owe it to the honour of our fathers that this portion of 

 our history shall not be neglected. Those who have ex- 

 erted a large influence in the establishment and support of 

 seminaries of learning, and those who have been eminent as 

 instructors, in the higher branches of knowledge, will be hon- 



