BGuthrie Photos: VA -- New Market -- New Market State Historic Park -- Bushong Farm

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1. BUSH_050619_002_STITCH.JPG: View of Shenandoah River from the hill by the Bushong Farm
2. BUSH_050619_081.JPG: This is the Woodson Monument. In May 1905, this small monument was erected by two former members of Captain Charles H. Woodson's 62-man Co. A, 1st Missouri Cavalry, C.S.A. who fought as infantry in the battle. They lost 40 men in the fight.
3. BUSH_050619_105.JPG: These cannons are where Sigel's cannons were placed during the charge. The Bushong Farm is in the distance on the left. On the right is the Hall of Valor.
4. BUSH_050619_137.JPG: The hills bordering the Bushong Farm are located on a overlook above the Shenandoah River.
5. BUSH_050619_188.JPG: This fence marks the extent of the orchard, located just north of the Bushong House. Here the VMI cadets dressed their lines before charging into battle. While waiting here, Union shell assaulted their lines. Mortally wounded here were cadets Samuel F. Atwill, Luther C. Haynes, Thomas G. Jefferson, Jacqueline B. Standard, and probably Joseph C. Wheelwright, though other evidence suggests that he may have been wounded on another part of the field.
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Wikipedia Description: Battle of New Market
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The Battle of New Market was a battle fought on May 15, 1864, in Virginia during Valley Campaigns of 1864 in the American Civil War. Cadets from the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) fought alongside the Confederate Army and forced Union General Franz Sigel and his army out of the Shenandoah Valley.

Background:

In the spring of 1864, Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant set in motion a grand strategy designed to press the Confederacy into submission. "My primary mission," reasoned Grant, "is to ... bring pressure to bear on the Confederacy so no longer could it take advantage of interior lines." Control of the strategically important and agriculturally rich Shenandoah Valley was a key element in General Grant's plans. While he confronted General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in the eastern part of the state, Grant ordered Major General Franz Sigel's army of 10,000 to secure the Valley and threaten Lee's flank, starting the Valley Campaigns of 1864.

Receiving word that the Union Army had entered the Valley, Confederate General John C. Breckinridge pulled together all available forces to repulse the latest threat. The VMI Cadet Corps, over half of whom were first year students, or "Rats", were called to join Breckinridge and his army of 4,500 veterans. The cadets marched 80 miles in four days to meet up with General Breckinridge's Confederate force. The cadets were intended to be a reserve and employed in battle only under the most dire circumstances. The two armies met at New Market on May 15, 1864. "I shall advance on him", the aggressive Breckinridge declared. "We can attack and whip them here and we will do it!" As the general rode by the cadets he shouted, "Gentlemen, I trust I will not need your services today; but if I do, I know you will do your duty."

Battle:

In drenching rain, Union artillery located in town fired upon the Confederate line as it began its advance from th ...More...
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