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Photographer: Bill Coughlin
Taken: August 20, 2012
Caption: Cadet Markers
Additional Description: Grave markers for the VMI cadets who died in the Battle of New Market, Va. on May 15, 1864 are behind the monument. These include Cadets William H. Cabell, Jaqueline B. Stanard, Samuel F. Atwill, Charles G. Crockett, Thomas G. Jefferson, Henry J. Jones, William H. McDowell, Joseph C. Wheelwright, Luther C. Haynes, and Alva C. Hartsfield. The remains of six of these cadets are encased in a copper box in the foundation of the monument.
Submitted: August 27, 2012, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey.
Database Locator Identification Number: p217210
File Size: 4.477 Megabytes

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