Virginia Military Institute And The Battle Of New Market
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Author | : Sarah Kay Bierle |
Publisher | : Emerging Civil War |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Military cadets |
ISBN | : 9781611214697 |
"The Battle of New Market, though a smaller conflict, represented a crucial moment in the Union's offensive movements in the spring of 1864 and became the last major Confederate victory in the Shenandoah Valley. The results of the battle between Franz Sigel and John C. Breckinridge - with the Virginia Military Institute Cadets pushing the conflict in the Confederates' favor - altered the campaigns of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee and the course of the American Civil War in Virginia."--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Preston Cocke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : New Market, Battle of, New Market, Va., 1864 |
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Author | : Elaine Marie Alphin |
Publisher | : Hither Page Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2010-05-01 |
Genre | : New Market, Battle of, New Market, Va., 1864 |
ISBN | : 9780979833250 |
Twelve-year-old Benjy, in Virginia visiting his grandmother, meets the ghost of a Virginia Military Institute cadet who was killed in the Battle of New Market in 1864 and helps him recover his family's treasured gold watch.
Author | : Charles R. Knight |
Publisher | : Savas Beatie |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2010-05-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1611210542 |
An “exciting and informative” account of the Civil War battle that opened the 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign, with illustrations included (Lone Star Book Review). Charles Knight’s Valley Thunder is the first full-length account in decades to examine the combat at New Market on May 15, 1864 that opened the pivotal Shenandoah Valley Campaign. Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who set in motion the wide-ranging operation to subjugate the South in 1864, intended to attack on multiple fronts so the Confederacy could no longer “take advantage of interior lines.” A key to success in the Eastern Theater was control of the Shenandoah Valley, an agriculturally abundant region that helped feed Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Grant tasked Maj. Gen. Franz Sigel, a German immigrant with a mixed fighting record, and a motley collection of units numbering some 10,000 men to clear the Valley and threaten Lee’s left flank. Opposing Sigel was Maj. Gen. (and former US Vice President) John C. Breckinridge, who assembled a scratch command to repulse the Federals. Included in his 4,500-man army were Virginia Military Institute cadets under the direction of Lt. Col. Scott Ship, who’d marched eighty miles in four days to fight Sigel. When the armies faced off at New Market, Breckinridge told the cadets, “Gentlemen, I trust I will not need your services today; but if I do, I know you will do your duty.” The sharp fighting seesawed back and forth during a drenching rainstorm, and wasn’t concluded until the cadets were inserted into the battle line to repulse a Federal attack and launch one of their own. The Union forces were driven from the Valley, but would return, reinforced and under new leadership, within a month. Before being repulsed, they would march over the field at New Market and capture Staunton, burn VMI in Lexington (partly in retaliation for the cadets’ participation at New Market), and very nearly capture Lynchburg. Operations in the Valley on a much larger scale that summer would permanently sweep the Confederates from the “Bread Basket of the Confederacy.” Valley Thunder is based on years of primary research and a firsthand appreciation of the battlefield terrain. Knight’s objective approach includes a detailed examination of the complex prelude leading up to the battle, and his entertaining prose introduces soldiers, civilians, and politicians who found themselves swept up in one of the war’s most gripping engagements.
Author | : William Couper |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : New Market, Battle of, New Market, Va., 1864 |
ISBN | : |
Virginia Military Institute and the Battle of New Market by William Couper, first published in 1900, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Author | : William Couper |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : New Market, Battle of, New Market, Va., 1864 |
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Author | : Couper Wm (William) 1884, B. |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2013-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781314779257 |
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Author | : James Gindlesperger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
The battle was similar to many others, with one notable exception: The corps of cadets from the Virginia Military Institute was among the regiments on the field that fateful day. Confederate President Jefferson Davis affectionately referred to those boys, as young as 15, as the "Seed Corn of the Confederacy". With only a few individual exceptions they had never been in battle. By day's end they had stepped into the pages of history. Their gallantry gained the respect of veteran soldiers on both sides. Their day culminated with the capture of a Union battery. The victory had a price, however. Ten of their number would die a New Market; more than fifty others would be wounded. This is the first known account of the Battle of New Market written from the perspective of the cadets from Virginia Military Institute. They had never seen battle before, but by day's end they had earned the admiration of both sides for their valor in action.
Author | : William Couper |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2016-09-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781333437008 |
Excerpt from Virginia Military Institute and the Battle of New Market: May 15, 1864 And when the battalion stood in line we heard the wel come warning; Brechinridge need: the help 0' the corps; he ready to march in the morning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Virginia Military Institute |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2016-05-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781355511762 |
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