Shortly after the close of the civil war, when the dust was barely settled on Franklin Street and the students were all coming back from fighting the war, a horse rode up from the south, dust around its legs, and the rider, weary from his long journey, reined up in front of David Swain's house, the president of the university of North Carolina. He had news for the president...The Yankee soldiers and General Smith Atkins were coming to Chapel Hill.