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Pi Kappa Alpha and ATO and SAE
Pi kappa Alpha was founded in 1868 by six students at the University of Virginia. Several of the young men had been Confederate soldiers who had fought together at the Battle of newmarket as Virginia Military Institute cadets. One of the myths/legends of our Fraternity is that it has it's origins in a campfire at Newmarket.
Interestingly, Alpha Tau Omega was also founded by former Confederate soldiers who were also cadets in the same VMI regiment in the same Battle of Newmarket. They all probably knew each other. ATO was founded at VMI in 1865.
And, if I'm not mistaken, one of SAE's Founders (1856) was the first soldier to die in the Civil War.
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