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by William C. Davis

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In this book, William C. Davis narrates one of the most memorable and crucial of the engagements fought for control of the strategically vital Shenandoah Valley -- a battle that centered on the farming community of New Market. There, Confederate forces under the command of General John C. Breckinridge defeated the numerically superior army commanded by the Union's hapless General Franz Sigel. Outnumbered by a margin of four to one at the beginning of the conflict, Breckinridge was desperate for additional men. He sent out a call for assistance to the Virginia Military Institute, and the school responded by sending 258 members of its Corps of Cadets into battle -- some of them as young as fifteen years old. In the action that followed, 57 of them would be killed or wounded.
In vivid detail, The Battle of New Market tells of Breckinridge's audacious domination of the battlefield and of Sigel's tragic ineptitude; of the opposing troops, both seasoned and untried; of the fate of prisoners and of the wounded; and, perhaps most memorably, of the gallantry of the cadets who marched from the classrooms of VMI directly into the heat of battle.

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In vivid detail, The Battle of New Market tells of Breckinridge's audacious domination of the battlefield and of Sigel's tragic ineptitude; of the opposing troops, both seasoned and untried; of the fate of prisoners and of the wounded; and, perhaps most memorably, of the gallantry of the cadets who marched from the classrooms of VMI directly into the heat of battle.

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  • Title Battle of New Market
  • Author William C. Davis
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 280
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher LSU Press, Baton Rouge, LA, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1983-01-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780807110782 / 0807110787
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.48 x 5.39 x 0.61 in (21.54 x 13.69 x 1.55 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: South Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: Virginia
    • Topical: Civil War
  • Category History - Military / War
  • Library of Congress subjects New Market, Battle of, New Market, Va., 1864
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 82018705
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.736

About the author

William C. Davis, a professor of history and executive director of the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech, is the author of numerous books on the Civil War, including Battle at Bull Run: A History of the First Major Campaign of the Civil War, The Orphan Brigade: The Kentucky Confederates Who Couldn't Go Home, and Duel Between the First Ironclads.

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