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. In the action that followed, 57 of them would be killed or wounded. 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. Outnumbered by a margin of four to one at the beginning of the conflict, Breckinridge was desperate for additional men. On May 15, 1864, at a little crossroads hamlet in Virginia, the fate of the Shenandoah Valley may have been decided and, with it, the ability of the Confederacy to survive in Virginia for another season. Breckinridge defeated the numerically superior army commanded by the Union's hapless General Franz Sigel. 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. Rating details 69 ratings 10 reviews Reprint of the 1975 Doubleday original. There, Confederate forces under the command of General John C. Davis narrates one of the most memorable and crucial of the engagements fought for control of the strategically vital Shenandoah.
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.
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