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BATTLE OF NEW MARKET 151ST ANNIVERSARY
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BATTLE OF NEW MARKET 151ST ANNIVERSARY
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Schedule of Events
Friday May 15
2:00-4:00
151st Anniversary Director’s Battlefield Tour
(REQUIRES PRE-REGISTRATION)
Saturday May 16
9:30-12:00
Adventure Camp-ages 7-12
(REQUIRES PRE-REGISTRATION)
10:00
Grounds Open to the Public
10:00-11:00
Henkel’s of New Market Lecture and Book Signing
with Stephen Renalds, (VMCW)
10:00-2:00
Saturday May 16 (continued)
12:00-2:15
10:00
Print signing with John Paul Strain (VMCW)
Grounds Open to the Public
1:30-2:30
Camp life, Living History at Bushong Farm
1865 in the Valley with Robert H. Moore II followed
11:00
by book signing (Activities Tent)
Artillery Demonstration (Spectator Area)
1:30-2:30
11:00-11:45
The Battle of New Market, a Cadet Perspective with
Byron Faidley, VMI ’07 (this battlefield walking tour
departs from benches in front of VMCW)
11:15-12:00
Sunday May 17
Book Signing w/ Authors Elsie Newcomer & Janet Ramsay (Sutler Row)
2:30
10:00-10:45 Church Service (Location TBA)
10:00-12:00 Print Signing with John Paul Strain (Sutler Row)
10:00-1:30 Camp life, Living History at Bushong Farm
11:00-12:00 Lecture and Book Signing with Author Stacey
REENACTMENT-Tactical Battle
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3:45-4:45
12:30-1:30
Book Signing with Authors Dan Davis, Robert H.
Lecture and Book Signing with Author Keith Gibson (Activities Tent)
A Conversation with the Artist—-John Paul Strain
Moore II, Stacey Nadeau (Sutler Row)
(VMCW)
3:45-4:45
12:00-12:45
Print Signing with John Paul Strain (Sutler Row)
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Lecture (Topic TBA) and Book Signing with Author
5:00
5:00
Dan Davis (Activities Tent)
Grounds Closed to the Public
Grounds Closed to the Public
2:00 REENACTMENT-Battle of New Market, May 15,
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May 15-17, 2015
Welcome
n behalf of the Virginia Military Institute and the staff of the Virginia Museum of the Civil War, welcome to the 151st Anniversary Battle of New Market Reenactment. We have the distinction of holding the longest, continual reenactment in the United States, still held on original battlefield property. While our first event was in May of 1914, our biggest was in September of 1923 between VMI Cadets and United States Marines.
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On May 16-17, 2015, we will mark the 151st Anniversary of the Battle of New Market, with a two day commemorative reenactment. You will witness hundreds of living historians from around the United States recreating a moment unique in American history and on the actual spot that event took place.
The battle is best known for the heroic role played by the young cadets from the Virginia Military Institute, the youngest only 15 years old; but valor and bravery knew no color that day. It is their story you will learn during your visit.
Merchants & Vendors (aka Sutlers) n the 19th century civilians called Sutlers followed the armies to sell items not available from the government, such as pen and paper, sweet treats, tobacco, patent medicines, reading materials, buttons, and even body armor. This tradition continues today at reenactments nationwide.
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Be sure to visit the Virginia Museum of the Civil War and historic Bushong farmstead, or have lunch at the various food vendors and shop at the many Civil War period merchants. Your reenactment admission ticket is good for all of the activities that day. We are glad that you are here and hope that you will have fun for the day and make memories for a lifetime.
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Frequently Asked Questions There are also living history presentations at the farm, a period church servTickets are available at the Park In the 19th century civilians called ice on Sunday, signal corps and entrance gate. Adult: $10.00 for ages 10 Sutlers followed the armies to sell artillery demonstrations, and opportuand over per day. Ages 9 and under items not available from the governnities throughout the weekend to walk free! The Park gate will open to the ment, such as pen and paper, sweet public at 8:00 a.m. with the camps treats, tobacco, patent medicines, read- through the camps and interact with opening at 10:00 a.m. ing materials, buttons, and even body reenactors. Special guest lecturers will be speaking each day. Camps close to armor. This tradition continues today the public immediately following the at reenactments nationwide. Where is the best place reenactment.
Where can I purchase tickets?
to view the battle?
The battle is narrated over a PA system in front of the Field of Lost Shoes, just north of the Bushong Farm. This is the largest gathering area for spectators, although some people “follow” the soldiers as they move from the southern section of the Park to the climax of the battle at the northern end. You may wish to bring binoculars or a telephoto lens to see the action close up.
What is a sutler?
What do we do if it rains? In over 42 years of hosting the reenactment we have only cancelled the event a few times, and those cancellations took place after very heavy rains threatened the safety of the horses and riders. The reenactment is held rain or shine. Tickets are non-refundable.
Clothing:
We suggest wearing light clothing for the weather at New Market that day. Yes, food is available from several local Hats, sunscreen, comfortable shoes would be appropriate. non-profit organizations.
Are there food vendors?
Can I bring a picnic lunch? Yes, and feel free to bring a lawn chair or blanket to sit on. In the interest of public safety coolers are not allowed outside of the parking area.
Can I bring a backpack? In the interest of public safety, no backpacks will be allowed outside of the parking area.
Are there activities before and after the battles? Yes, your ticket includes admission to the Virginia Museum of the Civil War. In the Museum you can view the award winning film Field of Lost Shoes, the exhibits on the Battle of New Market, and the Virginia Room, which follows the story of the war in Virginia.
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Is there a lot of walking involved? A moderate amount of walking is required from the designated parking areas to the sutlers row, concessions, the farm, camps, and the museum. Comfortable shoes are recommended. We have special handicap parking areas next to the spectator area for those with placards or license plates.
Can I bring my pet? No pets are permitted on the park grounds, in parking areas, or in vehicles (attended or unattended) with the exception of service animals and registered cavalry horses.
Is there handicap parking available? Yes. Please let the front gate and parking attendants know that you require handicapped parking.
Lost and Found: Lost and found items will be turned in at the front desk of the museum.
Code Adam: Lost children will be taken to the Sheriff’s Department mobile command center near the food vendors.
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The Battle of New Market Reenactment - The Tradition Continues By Troy D. Marshall
Staunton, Va., May 10, 1864 Maj. Gen. F. H. Smith, Supt. VMI:
Sigel is moving up the Valley—was at Strasburg last night. I cannot tell you whether this is his destination. I would be glad to have your assistance at once with the cadets and the section of artillery. Bring all the forage and rations you can . . .
Yours respectfully, John C. Breckinridge, Major General. ith these few words the Virginia Military Institute and the Battle of New Market are irrevocably linked. That spring of 1864 the stakes were higher than they had ever been and so were the expectations; not like previous years when the classroom monotony was occasionally broken up by an up-country march after Union cavalry. But still youthful bravado reigned supreme at V.M.I. and all saw the barracks as their prison. Major General Breckenridge required their battalion to bolster his understrength force of only about 5,000 men. His opponent, Major General Franz Sigel, and his seemingly limitless force of almost 9,000 men was heading south up the valley.
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The cadets joined Breckinridge’s
army in Staunton. Seasoned veterans greeted the school boys with jeers and suspicion. The young ladies of the local female Seminary greeted the cadets with a grand ball. Cadets danced on tired and blistered feet, little thinking that battle and death loomed only a few days in the future.
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In the early morning hours of May 15, 1864, COL Shipp’s battalion of cadets lumbered groggily towards the small hamlet of New Market. Here they waited an eternity until the sun was high overhead when they would finally advance against the Union line to their front. Though undoubtedly the best drilled troops on the field, only a few cadets had experienced real battle—“seen the elephant,” as the veterans called it. The average age among of the Corps was 18 years; the youngest was barely 15 years old. The severity of battle is no respecter of persons. By mid-afternoon the battalion could see Union General Sigel’s main line on Bushong’s Hill. Sigel attempted to capitalize on a break in the Confederate line by moving his troops forward. His infantry attack was repulsed when the break was filled by the VMI Cadet Corps and other reserve units. Now the entire Confederate line stormed across a rain-soaked wheat field—the Field of Lost Shoes. The cadets wrestled a cannon away from Von Kleiser’s Battery B, 30th NY after a brief but decisive period of close quarter fight-
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ing. By end of the day the battalion had suffered 47 wounded out of 257, with five dying and five more succumbing to their wounds later on. New Market’s battle was not large when compared to Gettysburg or Shiloh but nonetheless it was important and inspirational. One of the most fitting memorials of the cadet
charge came from Captain Franklin Town, a Union veteran of the battle. As a military spectacle it was most beautiful, and as a deed of war it was most grand. When such young men fall in a cause in which they believe, whether it is intrinsically right or wrong, one may realize the sadness of cutting off a life so full of promise, yet all—those who
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approved and those who opposed the cause they died for—will accord them the tribute of sincere respect and admiration. I don’t believe the history of war contains the record of a deed more chivalrous, more daring, or more honorable, than the charge of these boys to a victory which veterans might well boast. Virginia scholar Douglas Southall Freeman concluded, “Seldom did a small victory have so large an effect. Had not Sigel been driven back when he was, the Valley of Virginia might have been occupied by the Federals before the wheat crop was harvested…Short as was the time saved by the Battle of New Market, it was invaluable.” Members of the Cadet Battalion went on to serve on other fields until the smoke finally cleared and scars of battle were hidden by time, leaving only legacy and memory. The Cadet Cemetery at VMI carefully preserved the final resting place of five of the 10 fallen cadets until a more fitting monument could be made. Remarkably this memorial was made by one of their own-a veteran of New Market, Cadet Moses J. Ezekiel. Ezekiel created “Virginia Mourning Her Dead” in 1904 with its mournful figure of Virginia standing a somber guard over the cadet remains. On May 15, 1914 VMI, Virginia and the nation commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of New Market with a day-long slate of events at New Market and VMI’s first reenactment of the battle. According to the May 21, 1914 edition of the Shenandoah Valley newspaper, “Early the anniversary day the town filled up and ran over. The crowd is variously estimated at from 6,000 to 8,000 people. They came from all parts of the country-on the trains, in vehicles, on foot, horseback, and in automobiles-probably 400 or 500 automobiles motored in…” VMI brought 327 cadets under the leadership of Commandant COL Jennings C. Wise, son of deceased New Market Cadet John S. Wise. He led them in stages from the town cen-
BATTLE OF NEW MARKET 151ST ANNIVERSARY ter up to Bushong’s Farm, pausing only when explanation of the action required it. Spectators also followed but at a respectful distance. A Shenandoah Valley newspaperman remembered, “As the cadet corps marched over the field of battle… crowds viewed the spectacular parade from the rear end of the dwellings, lots, fields and Valley Turnpike to the east.” What was not soon forgotten was the recreation of the cadet charge when Col Wise ordered his line to halt, kneel and fire two volleys towards the now vacant Union line. His orders were heard a good distance away-“Fix Bayonets! Charge! DoubleTime! March, and up the hill they went as their gray clad forbearers once did. Ceremonies, speeches, and a public parade ended a once in a lifetime day for thousands including 27 New Market Cadets-witnesses to the action a half century ago. This would not be the last day when crowds descended on the town and the air was rent once again with the crack of the rifle. On September 20, 1923, Brig.-Gen Smedley Butler brought 3500 United States Marines to New Market for the first modern reenactment on the battlefield. The Marines stood in for General Sigel’s Union troops and the VMI Cadets reprised the role of their forbearers on May 15, 1864. According to a souvenir postcard the crowds were estimated at over 100,000 and the number of automobiles had also increased exponentially. This too would be a once in a lifetime event remembering the valor of VMI’s youthful cadets and the soldiery blue and gray. The guns fell silent at New Market again for another 41 years until another commemoration approached. In 1961 Virginia and the nation remembered the start of the American Civil War with films, programs and reenactments, but these were not the reenactments of almost a half-century ago. Participants prided themselves on their realistic dress, weaponry and
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attention to detail on the field. On May 15, 1964, reenactors and spectators once again arrived on the old field to see and learn about the Battle of New Market. The Centennial reenactment was a modest sized event by today’s
standards; it shows nonetheless that interest in reenactments has never really gone away at New Market. The 150th Anniversary of the Battle of New Market was commemorated on continued on page 10
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May 15, 2014. The Virginia Museum of the Civil War partnered with the GI Film Festival to show special screenings of the new Hollywood film, Field of Lost Shoes, on the actual anniversary of the battle. Movie goers literally filled up the theater. The museum also invited any descendant of a soldier or cadet from the battle to attend the event free charge. Remarkably, over 300 people responded to the invitation.
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On May 16-18, the park held a commemorative reenactment on the same ground that was used in 1914. The events were well attended each day and the weather was almost identical to that of the battle those many years ago. Troops waded through several Auto and Trailer Sales 540-984-4899
feet of water that weekend to the cheers of watching spectators. This year marks the 151st Anniversary and VMI and its Virginia Museum of the Civil War are well poised to tell this important story to a new generation of cadets, history enthusiasts, participants and spectators alike. The park begins the event by offering a 151st Anniversary guided tour of the battlefield from 2:00-4:00 on May 15th, with the reenactment proper running from Saturday the 16th –Sunday the 17th. For more information contact the Virginia Museum of the Civil War at 866.515.1854 toll free or visit our website at www.vmi.edu/newmarket . Join us and have fun for the day and make memories for a lifetime.
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The Virginia Museum of the Civil War and New Market Battlefield State Historical Park ocated in Virginia’s historic and beautiful Shenandoah Valley, the Virginia Museum of the Civil War and New Market Battlefield State Historical Park tell the story of the Civil War in Virginia and one of the last major southern victories in the “Breadbasket of the Confederacy.”
Hill. The Virginia Museum of the Civil War was among the top 100 structures identified as Virginia’s Favorite Architecture in 2013.
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On May 15, 1864, Confederate forces under Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge defeated a larger Union army under the command of Maj. Gen Franz Sigel on Bushong’s farm near the town of New Market. Breckinridge’s army included 257 Cadets from the Virginia Military Institute, facing their baptism of fire. Never before, or since has an entire college student body been called from their classrooms into pitched battle. The Cadets lost ten of their number killed and 47 wounded that day. Established by V.M.I. in 1967 by the philanthropy of Mr. George R. Collins, V.M.I. Class of 1911, the New Market Battlefield State Historical Park became a National Historic Landmark, comprising nearly 300 acres of the core battleground, the historic Bushong Farm and Hall of Valor Civil War Museum. The Hall of Valor was one of the first
The museum features colorful dioramas and compelling artifacts from the Battle of New Market which raged just outside of the building. In the theater, visitors can see the Emmy Award winning docudrama, Field of Lost Shoes on the top of each hour. museums in the Commonwealth to be accredited by the American Association of Museums. In 2010 the museum changed its name to Virginia Museum of the Civil War to reflect its singularity as Virginia’s only state-owned Civil War museum.
One of the most popular and admired exhibits in the museum is a 28-foot-long stained glass window, created by Israeli-born artist Ami Shamir. The window was the brainchild of Robert Blood, who designed the Hall of Valor exhibits for its opening in 1970.
The building itself was designed as a monument to all valor in the battle but particularly that of the V.M.I. cadets, the youngest combatant only 15 years old. The brown metal rotunda is reflective of a drum with stacked bayoneted rifles. Inside the museum is an expansive red carpet depicting sacrifice and a gentle sweeping ramp indicative of the motion of the cadet’s charge up Bushong’s
Artist Ami Shamir included such elements as flowing lines to suggest the Shenandoah Valley and the river of the same name, and flags and seals of Virginia Military Institute, the Confederacy, and the Union, to portray the conflict at New Market. The names of the ten cadets who were killed or mortally wounded in the battle are inscribed as the central feature.
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of Scott Shipp, marched into battle along with General John C. Breckinridge’s forces against Federal troops led by General Franz Sigel. Ten cadets were mortally wounded in the Battle of New Market.
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June 11, 1864 Federal troops, under the command of General David Hunter, entered Lexington. The Corps retreated to a camp in the Blue Ridge near Balcony Falls. VMI was burned the next day by Hunter’s soldiers. On June 25 the Corps returned to Lexington, only to be furloughed two days later.
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December, 1864 Academic work resumed at the Alms House in Richmond. VMI’s temporary headquarters. April, 1865 Richmond was evacuated and the Corps disbanded. The Confederacy surrendered at Appomattox.
October, 1865 VMI reopened in Lexington.
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Source : The Battle of New Market by Dr. Joseph W. A. Whitehorne
n 1839 the Virginia legislature approved replacing the guard company at the Lexington Arsenal with a military school. The school was intended to provide a source of competent militia officers, engineers, and teachers. It proved to be the states greatest source of officers in 1861; of sixty-four regiments raised that year, twenty-two were commanded by VMI graduates. Of 1,902 VMI matriculates from 1839 to 1865, 1,781 served in the Confederate Army. In April 1861 the Corps of Cadets, 200 strong, performed training duties in Richmond. The school resumed “normal” operations in January 1862 with 269 cadets. The corps was called out as reserve in April and May 1862 during Jackson’s McDowell Campaign and took to the field three times in 1863 to support resistance against Federal cavalry raids in southwest Virginia. Following New Market, the corps was ordered to Richmond, where it served briefly in the city’s defenses. It returned to Lexington in June to resist Hunter’s advance, but could do little to prevent the Federal burning of Institute facilities. The corps was furloughed from July to October, when it was reassembled at Richmond where it served again periodically in the city defenses. It was disbanded on 2 April 1865 on the eve of the evacuation of Richmond. The Institute reopened at Lexington in October 1865. VMI Casualties
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Killed in Action: Cabell, William H. Crockett, Charles G. Jones, Henry J. McDowell, William H. Stanard, Jaqueline B. Died of Wounds: Atwill, Samuel A., 20 Jul 64 Hartsfield, Alva C., 26 Jun 64 Haynes, Luther C., c. 15 Jun 64 Jefferson, Thomas G., 18 May 64 Wheelwright, Joseph C., 2 Jun 64 Wounded in Action: Akers, Reuben C. Berkeley, Edmund, Jr. Bradford, John F. Buster, William D.* Christian, Edward D. Cocke, John P. Corling, Charles T. Darden, James D. Dickinsen, Jesse I. Dillard, William, Jr. Garnett, Griffin T. Garrow, Harris W. Gibson, Franklin G. Goodwin, James H. Harris, Willis O. Harrison, Carter H. Hill, Archibald G. Howard, John C. Imboden, Jacob P. Johnson, Porter
Jones, Walter S. Macon, George K. Marshall, Martin Mead, Henry J. Merritt, James L. Moorman, Edwin S. Pendleton, Robert A. Phillips, Samuel T. Pizzini, Andrew, Jr. Preston, James B. Randolph, Charles C. Read, Charles H. Shipp, Scott Shriver, Samuel S. Smith, Charles H. Smith, Edward H. Smith, Francis L. Spiller, George Stuart, John A. Triplett, John R. Upshur, John N. Walker, Charles D. Walter, Charles P. Watson, William P. White, Thomas W. Whitehead, Henry C. Wise, John S. Wise, Louis C. Woodlief, Pierre W., Jr. Wyatt, John W. * Died of typhoid April 1865 with corps at Richmond.
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Thomas Jackson arrived in Lexington in 1851 to teach Natural Philosophy and Artillery Tactics at VMI. Originally built around 1800, Thomas and his wife Anna purchased the house in 1858. The Stonewall Jackson House reveals the family man who became known around the world as General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. Explore the gardens he loved at the only home he ever owned. The Stonewall Jackson House 8 East Washington St. Lexington, VA stonewalljackson.org