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Most famous for their participation in the Battle of New Market - where cadets from the Virginia Military Institute captured a Union Artillery Battery and secured victory for the Confederate States, the Virginia Military Institute will also be represented...
Most famous for their participation in the Battle of New Market - where cadets from the Virginia Military Institute captured a Union Artillery Battery and secured victory for the Confederate States, the Virginia Military Institute will also be represented...
Slavery was, as Confederate vice president Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia noted, the ideological “corner-stone” of the Confederate government. Equally important, slave labor provided the physical cornerstone for the Confederate war effort. Civilian and military employers in Virginia hired slaves in increasing numbers over the course of the war. Most of Virginia’s slaves worked as agricultural laborers, and their wartime production helped feed both civilians and soldiers, particularly after the Confederate Congress passed legislation allowing for the impressment of wheat, corn, and oth...