Home»Current Galleries»Battle of New Market (VA) May 19, 2012

This reenactment was a first for me and I really enjoyed it. This took place in New Market, VA the weekend of May 19-20, 2012, however, these images are only from May 19. The Battle of New Market Reenactment was a unique historical experience since it
took place on the original 1864 battlefield. From the VA Museum of the Civil War website:

The participation of the VMI Cadet Corps in the Battle of New Market marks a moment when young people-- college students-- were called upon to accomplish an assignment of heroic proportions. Called out of their classrooms on 11 May, the Corps marched 80 miles over four days (much of it in a soaking rain). On 15 May the Corps found itself in the center of the Confederate reserve line as General Breckinridge called for an infantry attack. Fate as much as planning resulted in the VMI Cadets advancing across a field into the path of waiting Union artillery and Infantry. The conduct of the cadets would determine the outcome of the struggle. The charge was a success and brought victory to the Confederates.

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