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Call out the Cadets - The Battle of New Market, May 15, 1864 (Paperback)
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Call out the Cadets - The Battle of New Market, May 15, 1864 (Paperback)
Series: Emerging Civil War
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Loot Price R298
Discovery Miles 2 980
You Save R78 (21%)
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"May God forgive me for the order," Confederate Maj. Gen. John C.
Breckinridge remarked as he ordered young cadets from Virginia
Military Institute into the battle lines at New Market, just days
after calling them from their academic studies to assist in a
crucial defense. Virginia's Shenandoah Valley had seen years of
fighting. In the spring of 1864, Union Maj. Gen. Franz Sigel
prepared to lead a new invasion force into the Valley, operating on
the far right flank of Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign.
Breckinridge scrambled to organize the Confederate defense. When
the opposing divisions clashed near the small crossroads town of
New Market on May 15, 1864, new legends of courage were born. Local
civilians witnessed the combat unfold in their streets,
churchyards, and fields and aided the fallen. The young cadets
rushed into the battle when ordered-an opportunity for an hour of
glory and tragedy. A Union soldier saved the national colors and a
comrade, later receiving a Medal of Honor. The battle of New
Market, though a smaller conflict in the grand scheme of that
blood-soaked summer, came at a crucial moment in the Union's
offensive movements that spring and also became the last major
Confederate victory in the Shenandoah Valley. The results in the
muddy fields reverberated across the North and South, altering
campaign plans-as well as the lives of those who witnessed or
fought. Some never left the fields alive; others retreated with
excuses or shame. Some survived, haunted or glorified by their
deeds. In Call Out the Cadets, Sarah Kay Bierle traces the history
of this important, yet smaller battle. While covering the military
aspects of the battle, the book also follows the history of
individuals whose lives or military careers were changed because of
the fight. New Market shined for its accounts of youth in battle,
immigrant generals, and a desperate, muddy fight. Youth and
veterans, generals and privates, farmers and teachers-all were
called into the conflict or its aftermath of the battle, an event
that changed a community, a military institute, and the very fate
of the Shenandoah Valley.
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