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The Battle of New Market. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1975. Knight, Charles, Valley Thunder: The Battle of New Market, New York: Savas Beatie, 2010, ISBN 978-1-932714-80-7. National Park Service battle description; Cadet Deaths at New Market – VMI Archives; CWSAC Report Update
Thomas Garland Jefferson (January 1, 1847 – May 18, 1864) was one of the VMI Cadets killed at the Battle of New Market. He died three days after the battle from wounds suffered during it. He was 17 years old and the great-grand nephew of former US president Thomas Jefferson. [1]
Scott Shipp, who led cadets at New Market, became the school’s second superintendent in 1890. In 1903, a statue sculpted by Moses Ezekiel, a VMI cadet who had fought and was wounded at New Market, called Virginia Mourning Her Dead, was dedicated. [45] Six of the ten fallen cadets are now buried on VMI grounds behind the statue. [46]
Ninth Superintendent of VMI; Brigadier general, U.S. Marine Corps Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr. 1917 U.S. Marine Corps general and 20th Commandant of the Marine Corps: Scott Shipp: 1856 Superintendent of VMI (1890–1907). Led VMI cadets at New Market under Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge. Adolphus Staton: 1899 Medal of Honor recipient Carl A. Strock: 1970
It is based on the true story of a group of cadets from the Virginia Military Institute who participated in the Battle of New Market against Union forces during the American Civil War on May 15, 1864. The film's title refers to the large number of soldiers' boots left on the battlefield due to the muddy conditions during the battle.
Battle of New Market † Jaqueline Beverly Stanard (April 27, 1845 – May 15, 1864) was one of the VMI Cadets killed at the Battle of New Market . [ 1 ] He matriculated at V.M.I. on January 20, 1863, from Orange Courthouse, Virginia.
Still a student when the American Civil War began, Wise served with the VMI Corps of Cadets at the Battle of New Market. Ordered to guard the Cadets' baggage train, he defied those orders to stay there, and took part in the Cadets' famous charge. After the battle, Wise accepted an officer's commission in the Confederate States Army. [2]
Among his other works was a memorial at VMI, Virginia Mourning Her Dead (1903), for which he declined payment. [9] It was installed in the small cemetery where six of the 10 VMI cadets killed at the Battle of New Market are buried. He also created a Confederate memorial which he called New South (1914); it was installed at Arlington National ...