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    I'm looking for primary sources and wartime images of VMI cadets. I am very familiar with the VMI Archives & VMI Museum & the New Market Battlefield(having spent 5 years there while in school) and I am familiar with many of the current publications about the school.

    The intent of this posting is to search out the lesser known articles and hopefully images of VMI Cadets. For example; I recently came across a UDC publication from the Gloucester, VA area entitled Reminiscences of CS Soldiers from Gloucester...in here is a wonderful description from Cadet John Tabb, describing how he was detained at VMI (being struck with Typhoid fever) and subsequently missing the Battle of New Market...something he regretted the rest of his life. Tabb goes onto describe the evacuation of VMI barracks and the posting of the school in Richmond...later describing the evacuation of Richmond and his adventure on the road to Appomattox (where he and his classmates hid from the Yankees w/ their brown CS blankets), ending with his capture and release.

    Note: I know several VMI Buttons have been dug in the Saylor's Creek area, and this is the area in which Tabb says they were present before their capture...it would take some of the mystery out of why VMI Cadet buttons are found from Richmond to Appomattox.

    Note: I also came across a gentleman several years ago @ the New Market Battlefield who claimed to have an image of Charles Wesson, I believe this man said he was in the Powhatan, VA area...I was given his contact information and carelessly misplaced it in my moving around. If this rings a bell with anyone, I would be most appreciative to have his contact information forwarded onto me.

    Thanks,
    Paul B. Boulden Jr.


    RAH VA MIL '04
    (Loblolly Mess)
    [URL="http://23rdva.netfirms.com/welcome.htm"]23rd VA Vol. Regt.[/URL]
    [URL="http://www.virginiaregiment.org/The_Virginia_Regiment/Home.html"]Waggoner's Company of the Virginia Regiment [/URL]

    [URL="http://www.military-historians.org/"]Company of Military Historians[/URL]
    [URL="http://www.moc.org/site/PageServer"]Museum of the Confederacy[/URL]
    [URL="http://www.historicsandusky.org/index.html"]Historic Sandusky [/URL]

    Inscription Capt. Archibold Willet headstone:

    "A span is all that we can boast, An inch or two of time, Man is but vanity and dust, In all his flower and prime."

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    Re: Search for VMI Primary Sources and Images

    Bump...Thanks guys.
    Paul B. Boulden Jr.


    RAH VA MIL '04
    (Loblolly Mess)
    [URL="http://23rdva.netfirms.com/welcome.htm"]23rd VA Vol. Regt.[/URL]
    [URL="http://www.virginiaregiment.org/The_Virginia_Regiment/Home.html"]Waggoner's Company of the Virginia Regiment [/URL]

    [URL="http://www.military-historians.org/"]Company of Military Historians[/URL]
    [URL="http://www.moc.org/site/PageServer"]Museum of the Confederacy[/URL]
    [URL="http://www.historicsandusky.org/index.html"]Historic Sandusky [/URL]

    Inscription Capt. Archibold Willet headstone:

    "A span is all that we can boast, An inch or two of time, Man is but vanity and dust, In all his flower and prime."

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      Re: Search for VMI Primary Sources and Images

      Paul - I shared this with my neighbor Mr. Bruce Cameron today. Needless to say he is very enthusiastic about your efforts. PM or email me your phone number. You two need to talk.
      B. G. Beall (Long Gone)

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      • #4
        Re: Search for VMI Primary Sources and Images

        I’m sure these are well known to you;

        NC MoH collection.

        JACKET 1914.236.15
        COAT; CONFEDERATE ARMY; INFANTRY. BUTTERNUT BROWN HOMESPUN WOOLEN CLOTH. NO INSIGNIA. BUTTONS--VMI BY R & W ROBINSON. POOR CONDITION. WORN BY PRIVATE THOMAS POLLOCK DEVEREUX, CO. D, 43TH NCST.

        http://ncmuseumofhistory.org/MOH/vfp...ABASE=56748377,


        KEPI 19XX.146.34
        BLACK BEAVER, LEATHER BILL & CROWN, VA STATE SEAL & VMI INSIGNIA, BRASS VA STATE SEAL BUTTON, SIZE 6 7/8.

        http://ncmuseumofhistory.org/MOH/vfp...ABASE=56748377,

        * * * * *

        The jacket.
        Attached Files
        B. G. Beall (Long Gone)

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        • #5
          Re: Search for VMI Primary Sources and Images

          When searching for manuscript material, it's always a good idea to check the National Union Catalog.

          Eric
          Eric J. Mink
          Co. A, 4th Va Inf
          Stonewall Brigade

          Help Preserve the Slaughter Pen Farm - Fredericksburg, Va.

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          • #6
            Re: Search for VMI Primary Sources and Images

            I'll have to search through my stack of research from school but there are a number of letters written home from Richmond and Camp Lee in the early summer of 1861 from troops throughout the south who speak about the cadets who acted as their drillmasters. Some of the cadets were so well liked that the companies they trained requested they become officers in their regiments.

            If anyone else knows of such letters please let us know!
            Cheers,
            [COLOR=Red]Kirby Smith[/COLOR]

            Loblolly Mess

            Too many ancestors who served and events on the schedule to post here...

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