BGuthrie Photos: VA -- New Market -- New Market State Historic Park -- Hall of Valor

VA -- New Market -- New Market State Historic Park -- Hall of Valor:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. VALOR_050619_010.JPG: Moses Ezekiel. The Jewish sculptor (1844-1917) was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. A cadet at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), Ezekiel fought at the Battle of New Market; his life greatly effected by the death of ten fellow cadets. Ezekiel entered medical college upon his graduation but soon opted to pursue his first love: art. Two years at the Royal Academy of Art helped prepare Ezekiel for his life-long career as a coveted sculptor in Rome. Moses Ezekiel was not the typical American expatriate. The bulk of his monumental works were done for American audiences about American themes. His style, dictated by the old school of art and sculpture, was quickly forgotten in America's turn of the century quest for modernization. Yet in his life and work, Moses Ezekiel remains an American original.
2. VALOR_050619_040.JPG: This is the sculpture you see shadowed by the stained glass in other pictures. It's Thomas Jefferson, done by Sir Moses Ezekiel (VMI Class of 1867. This particular one is a 1/2 scale studio model, done in 1899. Ezekiel wanted the Liberty Bell as the base and above, crowned with laurel leaves, is Jefferson holding the Declaration of Independence. During the Battle of New Market, Ezekiel lost his best friend, Cadet Thomas G. Jefferson. Jefferson, a descendent of the ex-President, mortally wounded in the battle, was nursed by Ezekiel for two days before he died. The statue itself was commissioned by the City of Louisville, Kentucky in 1899.
3. VALOR_050619_060.JPG: Taking the Oath and Drawing Rations: by John Rogers, plaster, 1865-66 In this popular sculpture, a Southern widowed mother is required to take the oath of allegiance to the United States before receiving food for her young son. A Union officer administers the oath with an air of reverence to the widow, while a young African American looks on. Modeled in 1865, "Taking the Oath" was one of his "most genuinely admired" sculptures, and the one he acknowledged to be "his best work." Its sympathetic treatment found favor with both Northerners and Southerners. Often called the "Norman Rockwell of the 19th Century," Rogers sculpted over eighty vignettes of everyday life and of literary characters between 1859 and 1892. Many of his subjects dealt with the Civil War. He sold thousands of cast plaster copies for twenty dollars or less.
4. VALOR_050619_089.JPG: Flag of the Southern Grays, Company C, 10th Virginia Volunteers: When the Civil War broke out, the Southern Grays, a prewar militia unit, became Company C of the 10th Virginia Regiment of Volunteers. At that time, the unit carried a Virginia flag -- a painting of the state seal on a field of blue. As a show of patriotism, the Virginia militia flag was turned over to a group of ladies in Winchester to convert it into a first national pattern Confederate flag. The seven red and six white strips of a U.S. flag were disassembled and then reassembled into two wide red stripes separated by one wide white stripe. The seal of the old Virginia flag was cut out to make a blue canton in the upper left corner of the new banner, which measured 77 by 50 inches. After the First Battle of Manassas (July 21, 1861), the 10th Virginia flag was sent home to be safeguarded by Miss Nellie Koontz, a daughter of one of the members of the regiment. The flag was restored in the spring of 1995. The work took more than three months, and was funded by private donations.
5. VALOR_050619_106.JPG: A Typical New Market Cadet: Benjamin A. Colonna, by James P. Walker, oil on canvas, 1912. While this portrait was created to depict a "typical cadet" of the Battle of New Market, the career of Benjamin "Duck" Colonna (1843-1924) was anything but typical. Born in Accomac County, Virginia, Colonna matriculated at VMI in 1860, and graduated June 27, 1864. He served in several Confederate regiments prior to rejoining the Corps of Cadets for the Battle of New Market, where he was Cadet Captain of Company D. After the war, he worked for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USGS). Colonna compiled comprehensive records of the cadets' role in the battle, as well as precise maps of the action. He is also the principal source of information on the VMI flag carried during the war; a design still used at VMI today. The Walker portrait shows Colonna on the battlefield of New Market, with the Bushong farm buildings in the background. ... Walker included a figure of a woman (possibly Elizabeth Clinedinst Crim) kneeling next to Colonna in an attitude of prayer. Concluding that she distracted from the main focus of the composition, Colonna directed the artist to paint over the woman's image. Ironically, over the years, the figure's ghostly outline reemerged, and may be seen in the lower left quarter of the painting.
6. VALOR_050619_126.JPG: Railroads of the Civil War: The American Civil War was the world's first major conflict in which railroads played a critical role and influenced strategy. This model illustrates some of the military and logistical uses of railroads. Railroad equipment was developed to meet military demands. New mobile forts and armored cars were designed to protect troops and equipment in transit. Reinforced flat cars provided a mobile foundation for heavy artillery, thereby vastly increasing the flexibility of fire power. Most important, however, were the benefits railroads afforded the men of the armies. Whole armies could quickly travel great distances by rail, and yet arrive rested and well fed, ready to do battle. Hospital trains brought complete surgical field stations to the front. When these makeshift medical centers proved inadequate, the speedy evacuation of the sick and wounded by train unquestionably helped to reduce military mortality. Lastly, the War, which dramatized the flexibility of railroads, gave impetus to the vast extension of the American rail system during the years immediately after the War.
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Description of Subject Matter: The Hall of Valor is part of the New Market Battlefield State Historic Park. It presents exhibits on the entire Civil War with special emphasis on the war in Virginia. The 1864 Battle of New Market is featured.
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