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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
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.
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]
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 Cemetery. Many of his works were of famous leaders.
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]
Virginia Mourning Her Dead, a bronze statue by Moses Ezekiel, dedicated 1903, moved to current location 1912, "honors the ten cadets from the school who fought and died after being wounded on the battlefield near New Market on May 15, 1864.... A ceremony to commemorate the deaths is held every year at the monument on the anniversary of the battle."
After New Market, Union Gen. David Hunter took command of the Valley Campaign from Franz Sigel and burned VMI. Shipp was then sent to Lynchburg, Virginia, to aid Maj. Gen. Jubal A. Early in defense of that city, then to Richmond with the VMI Cadets, where they served in the defensive trenches around the capital until the Corps disbanded in 1865.
From 1867 to 1868 he held the position of Cadet Adjunct. Many of the VMI cadets participated in the Battle of New Market. Dinwiddie served as a Corporal in Company C during the battle. He also served with the Corps of Cadets in the Richmond trenches during the Fall of 1864 until it disbanded on April 2, 1865. [3] [4]