148th Anniversary Battle of New Market Re-enactment May 19-20
NEW MARKET, Va., May 3, 2012 – Some 1,200 Civil War re-enactors are expected to take part in the 148th anniversary re-enactment of the Battle of New Market May 19-20. The event, held on Virginia Military Institute’s New Market Battlefield, is the oldest battle re-enactment in the nation, and one of few held on the original site.
Events will take place both on the battlefield, where soldiers in blue and gray fought and died that rainy Sunday afternoon of May 15, 1864, and on Bushong Farm, where the Bushong family hid as the fighting raged around them.
VMI cadets entered the battle after the famous words...
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