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"virginia mourning her dead" today...
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"virginia mourning her dead" today...


May 15, 2015, 11:48 AM




"Died on the Field of Honor"

Cadet Deaths at New Market


Ten VMI cadets were mortally wounded at the Battle of New Market on May 15, 1864. The New Market Day ceremony is an annual observance held at VMI in front of the monument "Virginia Mourning Her Dead", a memorial to the New Market Corps. The names of all of the cadets in the Corps of 1864 are inscribed on the monument, and six of the ten cadets who died are buried at this site.

The ceremony features the roll call of the names of the cadets who lost their lives at New Market, a custom that began in 1887. The name of each cadet who died is called, and a representative from the same company in today's Corps answers, "Died on the Field of Honor, Sir."

Cadet Deaths

Samuel F. Atwill
William H. Cabell
Charles G. Crockett
Alva C. Hartsfield
Luther C. Haynes
Thomas G. Jefferson
Henry J. Jones
William H. McDowell
J. Beverly Stanard
Joseph C. Wheelwright

http://www.vmi.edu/archives.aspx?id=5897

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Re: "virginia mourning her dead" today...


May 15, 2015, 1:48 PM

Thanks for posting. Have an ancestor on that list.

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you're welcome. so shines a good deed...***


May 15, 2015, 2:01 PM



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Battle of New market is an interesting one because


May 15, 2015, 2:29 PM

when people refer to the Civil War as brother against brother, they often are refering to the VMI cadets fromNorthern states. So many of the northern VMI cadets literally ended up fighting against family members in the war.

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"When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car."

"I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it."


"put the boys in..."


May 15, 2015, 2:45 PM

i'm glad they're remembered.

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