Call Out the Cadets: The Battle of New Market, May 15, 1864 (Sarah Kay Bierle - CWC) emancipation Although 78 percent of the

Although 78 percent of the soldiers' votes were cast for Lincoln

By vividly portraying the soldiers’ camp life and by carefully analyzing their collective memory

We watch it unfold

new legends of courage were born

Call Out the Cadets: The Battle of New Market, May 15, 1864 (Sarah Kay Bierle - CWC) emancipation Although 78 percent of theCall Out the Cadets: The Battle of New Market, May 15, 1864 (Emerging Civil War Series by Sarah Kay Bierle "May God forgive me for the order," Confederate Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge remarked as he ordered young cadets from Virginia Military Institute into the battle lines at New Market, just days after calling them from their academic studies to assist in a crucial defense. Virginia's Shenandoah Valley had seen years of fighting. In the spring of