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Asbury Coward Asbury Coward (September 19, 1835 - April 28, 1925) was a school leader, Confederate Army officer, South Carolina Superintendent of Education. He served as Superintendent of The Citadel. He was born on the Quenby Plantation outside Charleston, South Carolina,[1] and graduated from South Carolina Military Academy (now The Citadel) in 1854. He and classmate Micah Jenkins established the King's Mountain Military School in Yorkville in 1855.[2] It closed at the start of the American Civil War. It reopened after the war but the boarding school struggled with the challenging times and closed.[2] During the Civil War, Coward was commissioned as a colonel and served under General James Longstreet in Tennessee and Georgia.[2] He served as president of the Kings Mountain, North Carolina, centennial committee.[citation needed] In 1890, Coward was named Superintendent of The Citadel. He remained in that office until 1908 and died in 1925.[2] He is buried at Rosehill Cemetery in York County.[3] The Daughters of the American Revolution erected a monument honoring him at Kings Mountain National Military Park in Blacksburg.[4] The Citadel has a collection of his letters.[5] Winthrop University has a small collection of his letters.[6] His memoir was published in 1968.[7] References
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