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Of the 257 cadets from Virginia Military Institute who fought in the Battle of New Market, ten were either killed outright or later died of their wounds. Their legacy of service and sacrifice has inspired each successive generation of cadets. Sinc…
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In the spring of 1864, Union Gen. Franz Sigel marched his 10,000-man army south through the Shenandoah Valley as part of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's strategy to attack the Confederacy on several fronts simultaneously. To counter this threat, Gen. John…
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The spring of 1864 opened with United States forces pressing Confederate armies defending fronts scattered throughout the Confederacy. Union Gen. Franz Sigel was assigned the task of securing the Shenandoah Valley; always one of the Civil War's mo…
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On 22 May 1865, after the Civil War ended.Capt. George W. Summers, Sgt. I. Newton Koontz,and two other armed veterans of Co. D,7th Virginia Cavalry, robbed six Federalcavalrymen of their horses near Woodstock.The horses were returned the next day …
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The main Union line of battle extended from here for one-half mile to the Valley Turnpike, now U.S. 11. Throughout the morning and into the afternoon, the Union force exchanged musket and cannon fire with the Confederates, who had advanced over a …
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In front of you is one of only two monuments erected by veterans of the battle. This one was placed by members of Woodson's Company of Missouri Cavalry. The unit followed perhaps the strangest path to this field of conflict.
Captured in Mississ…
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On June 22, 1791, Henry Bushong patented a 260-acre tract in Shenandoah County that would be home for several generations of his descendants. Henry's son, Jacob married Sarah Strickler in 1818. They took up residence in a four-room log house and b…
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While the cadets of the Virginia Military Institute comprised one of the smallest Confederate units engaged in the Battle of New Market, they paid a disproportionately high price in their baptism of fire. Nearly one in four of the cadets were eith…
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Frontiersman - famed Indian fighter - Revolutionary patriot - Co-Commander Battle of King's Mountain - first Governor of Tennessee and six times Governor - first Congressman west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Founder of New Market, Va in 1765. His …
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Here Capt. Henry DuPont, commanding B Battery, 5th U.S.Artillery, protected Union Gen. Franz Sigel's defeated army as it retreated after the Battle ofNew Market on May 15, 1864.Confederate Gen. John C. Breckinridge had routed Sigel's forcethat aft…