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%%% C a b e t VOLUME VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE, LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, MAY 12, 1961 NUMBER 27

F4S Meeting

Closed Tomorrow

The Old Dominion's budding scientists and their senior counter-parts assemble h.»re this week at the Virginia Military Institute for the annual meeting of ithe Vir-ginia Academy of Science and the Junior Academy of Science.

More than 800 persons are ex-pected for th^ four days of dis-cussions, technical paper presenta-tions, exhibits, and associated ex-ercises which run from Wadnesday afternoon to noon Saturday.

The Junior scientists, represent-ing much of Lhe top talent from' Virginia's high and preparatory schools, begin arriving first. Their program runs from 3 p.m. through noon Friday. The senior scientists arrive Thursday morning and their programs continue through noon Saturday. - '

More than 70 science exhibits and projects the work of the junior scientists, will be on dis-play and be in competi-ion for honors at the meeting .These pro-jects ^present the top placers of Science Day competitions held earlier this spring at various loca-tions throughout Virginia. In ad-dition, science students will have interviews in the Virginia Science Talent Search which leads to col-lege scholarships. Among the hon-ors to be accorded will ^e the E. C. L. Miller Award, v«ich goes to the outstanding -aigh school science club in Vir**"'®-

Meanwhile, tl><-senior scientists of the carry on their

activities, /»cipaMy s e p a r a t e meetiing^^ the 11 sections of the acaden»^'^P''®^®"ting all fields of sc ie i^ More than 200 scientific p a p ^ w i l l be presented during j^toursB of the meetings. The J. /felton Horsley Award will be pre-

,mnted in ceremonies Friday night to the author of the best research paper.

At the assembly of the VAS Friday night, Dr. Arthur Roe, head of the planning group of the Na-tional Science Foundation, will make the principal address, speak-ing on "Education for the Future." Dr. Roe, former professor and chairman of the Chemistry Depart-ment at the University of North Carolina, has beaded the pJanning group since July, I960. New offi-cers also will be elected at the Fri-day night meeting.

Dr. Wilson B. Bell, of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, is president of the academy, and Dr. Horton H. Hobbs, of the University of Vir-ginia's Department of Biology, is president-elect.

Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, the guest speaker at the Stratford Centennial celebration, meets

Cadet Capt. Spencer, R. W. and Cadet Lt. Wil-liamson, R. F.

V.M.I . Band Attends Centennial Celebration At R. E. Lee Home

Welcome! .

A M E R I C A ' S SC IENTISTS

OF THE F U T U R E . T H E V M I

CADET E X T E N D S GREET-

I N G S TO THE M E M B E R S OF

THE V I R G J N I A A C A D E M Y

0 F SC IENCE V IS IT ING

H E R E T H I 3 W E E K E N D .

Last weekend the VMI band participated in Westmoreland Coun-ty's observation of the Civil War Centennial at Stratford, the birth-place of Robert E. Lee. A portion of the band left Saturday morning, paying overnight at Ft. Meyer in Arlington, and from there joined the rest of the band Sunday after-noon.

Also present at the ceremony was former Chief of Staff Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, principal speak-er of the day, who said that the quality of leadership given by Lee to the South is needed today on a national and international basis. Taylor said, "Certainly today as we live under the threat of gen-eral atomic war, we need men of high integrity and commanding in-tellect in our national councils. We are seeing the erosion of the free worki by forces which are both dangerous and with which it is difficult to deal." He also said, in obvious reference to Cuba, "we are seeing the effect of an alien creed infiltrated even into our Western hemisphere."

General Taylor was recently called back from retirement to active duty by President Kennedy to review intelligence, para-mili-tary, and guerilla warfare capabili-ties of the United States.

General Taylor delined to com-ment on his present asaignmvnt, but said that he had been "cloister-ed in the heart of the Pentagon" since hi« recaU-to Washington.

He referred to the growth of

Red China as an expanding poli-tical and military strength in the East as "perhaps the most specta-cular phenomenon of this decade."

"Faced with all of these chal-lenges and attacks of an insidious and sinister character, we are un-certain in our national councils how to use our strength," Taylor said.

I "We have the feeling of great assets, human and material, avail-

jable to our country but, thus far, we have been uncertain how to

; organize them effectively." "We have not yet learred how

[to use our political and military, j our economic and our moval assets in that single unified way to obtain national objectives which seems to the gift of our dangerous oppon-ents," he said.

General Taylor said that our hope lies in a "deepened faith in

I our cause," and he said that our country has a cause today, just as

I Lee's Army of Northern Virginia had a great cause.

He said. "We need men of high (Continued on Page 8)

Informal Dunce Tomorrow night, 13 May, will

be the date of the last dance be>-fore Finals as the music of the VMI Commanders will set the a tmosphere for an informal dance sponsored by Band Co. The price of admission will b« $2.00 per couple and $1.25 sin-gle. Ful l hop privileges will also prevail. Decoraftons will be con-structed to provide the best tttmoKphere possibe through use »f tables on the floor; this will be supplemented by soft drinksi being served to these tables and occupants.

Glee Club On Final Tour Of Season

The VMI Glee Club left early this morning on its final concert tour of the year. After having toured a large part of Virginia on earlier trips, the Glee Club this time turned north with Cranford, New Jersey, as its destination. The schedule includes a short stop-off concert at the Shenandoah Con-servatory of Music at Winchester, Virginia, today, and another con-cert at the Cranford High School, Saturday night. On Sunday the Glee Club will sing at the Trinity Episcopal Church for the eleven o'clock service.

The repertoire covers a wide range of musical types from the light to the moderately heavy. Oa the light side the Glee Club Is doing such numbers as "The Happy Wanderer" and Ralph Vaughan William's "The Vagabond" as well as the ever popular "Shenandoah" which will aga\n have Battle Has-lam to lend it personality. Of a more serious nature are numbers like "By Babel Rivers" from the seventeenth century Ainsworth Psalter and Randall Thompson'.'? dynamic "Last Words of David" which will be sung both at the concert and at the church on Sun-day. In all, the repertoire will contain some eighteen numbers.

When the Glee Club finally re-turns here on Sunday its season will not even then be over, for at least two more concerts are sched-uled to be given here on the post before graduation. A concert is scheduled with the festivities on the Superintendent's inaugural weekend, and the traditional Gle® Club concert during Finals will be a highlight of that festive period of graduation.

Inauguration Plans

Set For May 19 -20 The inaugural ceremony for

General George R. E. Shell is fast approaching; and, as the dates of May 19th and 20th draw near, the Superintendent's Inaugural Com-mittee will be making the final arrangements for this important event.

Ths program will get under way on Friday afternoon. May 19th, with a salute to the Honorable J. Lindsay Almond, Jr.. the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. This salute will be followed by a retreat parade. Friday evening, there will be a reception by the Board of Visitors for General and Mrs. Shell in the WUliam H. Cocke, '94 HaU.

Classes will be suspended on Saturday to' enable the Corps of Cadets to participate in the acti-vities of the day. At the completion of the robing ceremony, the In-augural Procession will form in front o£ tbe Preston Library at

10:30 a.m. This procession will be formed and led by the Grand Marshall of the Inauguration Com-mittee, Colonel George Breden Ax, professor of mathematics. Follow-ing the Grand Marshall will be the Superintendent's Party, including Governor Almond, the Honorable Giles Henry Miller, Jr. the presi-dent of the Board of Visitors, General Shell, the present Super-intendent of VMI, Lt. General Charles E. Kilboume, the Super intendent Emeritus, Lt. General Ric|iard J. Marshall, a former Superintendent of the Institute, the president of the University of Virginia, the president of the Uni-versity of Washington and Lee Uni-versity, the Chancellor of Wash-ington and Lee University, the re-tired Bishop of Anking, China, the Rector Emeritus of the St. James Church of Richmond, delegates from the Oongress of the United

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New Market Day, May 15,1864 The Institute's Finest Hour

Once each year—on May 15— the Corps of Cadets of the Virginia Military Institute carriss out a colrful and impressive ceremony honoring another youthful VMI Corps whose courage and gallantry almost 100 years ago will always serve as an inspirational force.

It was on May 15, 1864, that the then little VMI Corps went into battle at New Market, Virginia, moved forward from a reserve

. Nposition i';o the front line and spearheaded an attack which res-ulted in a resounding Confederate victory. Ten cadets lost their lives and 47 others were wounded. Their actin served that day as an inspira-tion ot veteran soldiers and it has served as an inspiration for gen-erations of VMI cadets.

At VMI May 15 is known as New Market Day and annually the Cadet Corps pays tribute to that dauntless group in a moving cere-mony before the Statue of Virginia Mourning Her Dead, on the VMI grounds. Six of the cadets killed ig.the battle are buried under the txionument, and plaques attached to It list the names of the 241 cadets who participated in the battle.

rAs the roll of the 10 who lost their lives is called and as the answers, "Died on the Field of Honor," ring out across the parade fwld, as taps echoes from the hills, and as the Corps marches in re-view past the monument, cadets are reminded of the deeds of their predecessors.

The story of this cadets' parti-cipation in the Battle of New Mar-ket began on May 10, 1864: this was the first anniversary of the

Crps to march up the Shenandoah Valley and join the forces of Major General John C. Breckin-ridge.

Before daylight of the eleventh arrangements for the Corps to move northward had been com-pleted — stores, ammunition and equipment had been assembled, horses had been impressed for 'the artillery, and organizational orders had been prepared. The orders provided among other things, that eight cadets from each of the four companies would be detailed to the artille>'y, and that 27 cadets would remain at 'he Institute because of illness, assignment to guard duty, or for other causes. The cadets were routed out of bed and at seven o'clock in the morning they started their march northward in the rain.

On Saturday night after four days through torrential rain, they camped beside the pike at a point approximately 70 miles from Lex-ington. Ten miles ahead lay the little town of New ll^rket, which was the junction of the Valley Pike and ah important road which led eastward over the mountains. It was decided that this would be the place to make a stand.

An hour ifter midnight, ithe Corps was roused and formed, and marched off through the rain to-ward New Market; in the morn-ing hours the cadets arrived at a point about one mile from the town, swung off the pike and formed a line in reserve at right angles to the road, behind a low elevation called Shirley's Hill. The artillery detachment could not fol-

death of "Stonewall" Jackson— ! low through the mire and was or-who had served on the VMI faculty I dered to join other Confederate for 10 years prior to the war—and ' artillery. The artillery detachment, the Cadet Corps a':tended a mem- i manner by the 32 cadets who ser-orial service that afternoon at i ved two rifled three-inch muzzle the Lexington Cemetery where loaders, galloped off and became

Jackson was buried. After the ceremony the Corps returned to the barracks and the daily routine was resumed; bu* at nine o'clock that night a courier rode into Lex-ington from the north bringing a message that ordered the Cadet

the first active cadet participants in the battle. There were 215 of-ficers and men left in the cadet In fantry battalion.

I The bat le began about eleven o'clock in the morning, although skirmishers had gone forward and

H b t v m m t t a i i v "StoMwal l" Jacfcsoa s t a l l s ab«ve the Iwi r cannooB l l» t t l iew. Mark, Luke and Jehu.

the artillery duel started prior to that time, and the initial stages of the engagement were consumed with ithe Confederate forces driv-ing the Federal forces out of the town. General Sigel withdrew his advance brigade to a station on a hill about one mile north of New Market and a half-mile farther north established a second line. There, opposite the Confederate left, he massed most of his artillery on the heights along the Shenan-doah River.

In the early afternoon, General Breckinridge manuevered his army into two lines—^with the cadets part of the second—and (there started a general advance. The ca-diet Infantry battalion moved from the protection of their position be-' hind Shirley's Hill and were'des-cending the other side when they experienced their first casualties. Artillery shdl ekplbsidhV w o u n ^ four cadets and-brie tactk'aif of' ficer—a tactic*! pfficer ' w i s as: signed to duty with each^ coiin<' pany. As the as^ult c t ^nued , Von Kleiser's Bat t^-and two Fe-deral regiments weire fertiiBd' fto re' ' ti»at from the front defensive liwe

The center of the^ Cohf^eratid line—and it was here that the Cadet Corps was located^-advane-ed on comparatively level ground and in front of the cadets was ai farmhouse—the Bushong House. Five hundred yardS beyond it was the Federal positionV protected by eighteen guns on its right flank and four on its left. The Corps, al-ready under artillery fire, came within range of Federal muskets; and here Cadets Cabell, Crockett and Jones were killed by artiUery fine and McDowell by rifle firt. A number of others were Wounded, but the cadets closed their line« to fill the gaps. They pushed for ward past the Bushong House; two companies going to the left of it and two 'to the right, advancing into an orchard where they re-formed.

The Federal forces mounted a counter attack but it failed. And then a black thundercloud burst over the shot-torn wheat field, turning the already mucky field into a gummy mass that literally pulled the shoes from the feet. It was then, in the midst of the thun-derstorm, that the cadets were or-dered to charge. They arose from the fence line and, with beyonets fixed, sprang forward through the rain and incessant fire. With their color bearer running well in ad-vance, the cadets surged ahead in

wild drive that inspired Confe-derate troops all along the line. Their drive carried them into the midst of Von Kleiser's battery, where in hand-to-hand fighting, with their bayonets, they drive the cannoneers from the guns, captur-ing one and possibly two pieces. The Federal forces broke into re-ti-eat and the cadets rushed about taking prisoners. One cadet alone brought in 23 prisoners. The enemy fled northward covering their re-treat. Infantr/ pursuit continued for a distance and the battle was over for the cadel foot soldiers, but the Confederate artillery, in-eluding the cadet section went about five miles beyond before halting.

It was indeed a triumph for the cadets who had marched four days through the rain and< (then plunged into tkeir first pitched battle on a mi)ddy field at New Market. Their equipment and arms were utterly inferior to their op-ponents—in many cases the ram-rods of their olid Austrian rifles were so swollen by the rains they would not be withdrawn and the cadets used captured rifles where ever possible.

The JStatue of Virginia M««iminf Her I>e«A is the Center (rf the New Majitet Day Ceremonies. .

NEW MAiUPlT: 1864 ^Cadets of the Virginia M i l i t ^ Instkute^^^

From dawn till dark they . .u ^ J ' Witii steady tread, Unihinded of the armies gone before, ' u -The shattered legions of the! »youthful dead.

Along the muddy road a day was breaking. Between the hills, gray walls against the light, They marched to sav€ the V;^ley from invj^sion, Their step was quick. They hurried toward the fight. '

The Veteran band struck up a tune to greet them, ' Played "Rockabye" for soldiers on the way To battle, that had never tasted battle. And marched the Valley road with death that day.

They did not break beneath the test of fire; In double-time they charged the heavy guns. They were Virginia's last— In this dark hour she gave her youngest sons.

Their line advanced, clean-cut as foc parade, Rain-drenched they marched, unfl inch^g in their pride, And gained the ground that they were se»4; to gain, Then fell among the tangled weeds and di^jj.

From "Sunday in Virginia" by Geitv^^^ Claytor

CAPTURE OF VAN KLEISEB'S FEDERAL BATTERY — More than one ai t is t has tajien the historic Battle of New Market and Uie Corps of the Virginia HUitary Inst i tute as a basis for his work. Tlie undetennii ied art is t of tlie "Capture of Van Kleiser 's Federa l Bat tery" took a scene f rom perhaps the riehest moment in VMI history and i>ortrayed It in ful l oil color. Faying part icular atten-Uon to minute details of i (as can be observed in the strongly accented expressions of the part ic ipants) , and also to historical accuracy, this artist has shown his idea of how the BatalHon of The Virginia Military Inst i tute appeared in the moment just prior to their swet^ting the soldiers of the Union Armv f rom the position.

VMl is fo i tuna te enough to have possession of this work of a r t ; It is new hanging in the Recention Room in Banra'>ks. Such works as this have h e l p r l spread a colorful and exciting moment in his tery, the BuUie ef New Market, beyond just the duU reaches of factual history. The viewing • ( this pVcti«re s e e n s to have the pano-nunic effect of giving the observer • »ew sense of pr ide and re-spect for VMI while, at t,he saioe t inw. serving as a fUting mmorlal to tliu«e who gave their lives for the preservation of their desire^ ideals.

The Virginia Military Institute Barracks in ruin after the raid if Gen. D. H. Hunter. 1864.

Gen. Hunter's Raid

Leaves VMI In Ruins

General Hunter had already once ordered the Institute to be shelled on the pretext - hat McCausIand's men were hiding and firing from within; his orders were disobeyed, or went unnoticed and, as a result, Schoonmaker was sooj) to appear before Hunter tO' bear the full bruttt <rf hi« wrath; he was in fact relieved of his command for a time because of iiis fiailure to burn the InsHtute.

After the waf a Senator DuPont was to add to the story the fact that he recalled being met by a "straggling infantry fire from " he cadet barracks of the Virginia Military and from other points along the North River, a tributary of the James, together with one or two cannn sho>." That the regular battery had opened fire at once upon receipt of Hunter's orders, but after one round an order had come to cease firing, the defenders of the place having retreated. He

VMI Cadets Drillmnsters

For Confederate Recruits IF By JACK ROWELL

At precisely the last stroke of the clock at eleven on the morn-ing of April 21, 1861, the com-mand, "Faw-ward March" was given by Major T. J. Jackson to the assembled Corps of Cadets as the signal to start their long march to glory in the War Between the States'. These one hundred an-d sixty cadets were on their way to Richmond to act as drill-march-ers for the volunteers recruited to fight for the Confederate States of An^erica.

The first leg of the trip was a forced march all the way to Staun-ton where they were to lead on trains for Richmond. They stayed the night in Staunton and left

Aft«r the battle of New Market he Corps of Cadets of the Virginia ililitary Institute was ordered to iroceed to Richmond, to act as. a «serve'ufiit in the .defense of ihat great x;ity. tDuring .the trip >he m e m b ^ of the coips were-tailed ' as - donqtiering h e ^ s all Wng the Toufte'of march. They topped in StatihtQo to refit oiany

he cadets with new shpes as the. ones had worn out and wece

xeeedingly' Hhcomfortable. .In fact,, nany of 'the -cadets entered : the owjv buefoot.' The five cadets hat gav^ their lives at -New Mar-ket were already deemed heroes ly the populace, as much, so, that •rivate citizens offered their prl--ate estates as final restii\g places or them. "Aftei: leaving Staunton Ihe corps continued its- trip to ichmond:. There was only one

^eiay at Charlottesville, where the eary soldiers emptied the local e cream constabularies of their ares.

After finally arriying at Rich-

jnond the corps was greeted with

i telegram ordering their return

0 Lexington, as the surrounding

icea was being threatened by ad-

vancing Federal forces; they wei^

;o protect Lexington and the p^P*

jfty contained therein. T l ^

^ ilso stated that they wejp t® avoid

totittle unless an pre-

^ n t e d itself. The c;-^, started ar-

riving in Lexingto^^" June 8, how-

ever their a r r i y - ^ ^ P f ^

until the nig^o^ night a l l f H S-ith. the Su,^r-

• I ^A^nt ti"*®. sent a letter mtendent jE ' to Gene^i'^*'®® mformmg him ^^^^ ^^^^ situation ' Lexington was hopeless.

in charge of the forces ixington, McCausland, would

be able to hold the town and

thereby destroying the bridge

was to enemy.

return the fire of the He stated that Schoon-

(however there' is-no proof that maker la*.er told him that the or-these cadets ever took part in the. battle on June 11. );tt'he remaining cade^ depai:ted, Trom barracks tft about nooflu. ;...>. . . . ; The bridge -was burned during thfi-,retri;at ahd: M<^aurtand per-meated the smtQiwdi.nS Hillsides ^ i th . attiileiyr ^<1 pUced sharp-shooters- pn , ^e «urrpunding cliffs; the cadets however, did not take part in this aotion nor in any subsequent actioti'of the day. That night the corps camped on the top Of the Blue Ridge Mountains two mUes from Balcony Falls, which is found at th» foot of the range at • the west . end of the gorge

der was to shell the town, and that both of them realized that this hesty- • action would necessitate widespread .injury to innocent townspeople. With this ia mind Du-PDnt uistead directed his fire on tte .cadet barr^ks.'^

Cpionel Schoonmaker later re-phrased his original story to the^ extent that his inspection of the barracks had as its purpose .*.he ascertainment of whether DuPont's battery, had fired the* Institute or not. Upon finding that it had not. he proeeeded Ao place the build-ings under guard, and was engaged in picketing- the roads entering

through which the James R i v e r I when Hunter arrived

cuts it way. The next day ( 1 2 t h ) his army and subsequently the corps shifted two miles e a s t - 1 ^ ^ command, ward to the Rope Ferry where it i Schoonmaker is quite frank in remained for three days. i revealing the fact that Hunter had

^ ^ ^ , t . ' personally expressed his reason The events that took place m • ' ^

Lexington during the corps' ab-sence are perhaps best recorded in

for burning the Institu'.e as being the part that the corps played at

the diary of a Mrs. Preston, a ^ ^ ^ resident of Lexington. She tells ^ J ' ^P®^®"® J"®^®"^"®' th®re was of the retreating

pick«^ that trickled through the ahead of the advancing Fe-

deral troops and cavalry. One must take note of the ramarkable pre-sence of mind possessed by this woman at such a time of crisis. She tells of the Union Cavalry galloping through town and then the infantry coming in and can-

stat3d tha' the order was a verbal for Richmond at ten o'clock on the one, probably delivered by one of , 22nd. When they loaded on their Hunter's aides, and that its purpose : special troop train there were

many tear- stained faces looking out on their departure. Staunton, then as now, was the home of many young Virginia ladies off at school.

The Corps' first taste of hard-ships of war took place on this tradn trip to Richmond. The en-gine of their, train was derailed ^inside the Blue Ridge Tunnel and the Corps had to sit for t^p hours suffocating from their pwn enr gine's smoke. To add to the con-fusion,. the troops knew that at any time they might be rammed from behind by a regularly sched-uled train that made the run frpm Staunton to Richmond daily. The Corps could truly say that from the very start, "War was Hell."

When the Corps arrived in Rich-mond, they were unloaded and marched to the Capital grounds for a review for the governor. For many of the troops this parade was very embarrassing because they could not button their coatees—then as now, a VMI but-ton was a treasured memento of some fair damsel of Staunton.

The Corps was billeted at the exhibition grounds just outside Richmond. As the volunteers ar-rived to be trained, they were mustered into service and organiz-ed into regiments and batteries.

that he begged Hunter i*o stop his raucouc and foolhardy rampag-ing, that the buildings of Washing-

;rssinJh;;'hom;"and'smo^rh;u7e

for food, leaving none for her and her family. After this incident she boarded up her house and settled

Lee University) adjacent to the Institute were saved from im-men* desttuction. Schoonmaker used the argument that another

of slumber. She was awakened the act . . . such as this on the part of Hunter

down to a relatively peaceful night

next morning by a servant who

informed her that a throng of soldiers had broken into her house and were looting it. When she con-

i fronted them ' they demanded enemy was to camp that night i , „ j . l.u * i j * p, . . . f, ?•-. arms, and when she failed to pro-I'A/iOfl* Iliv/^i/A urni/«n txroc niMA ' ^ Cedar Grove which was nine

iiiles from Lexington, and at Fair-eld, a mere twelve miles distant.

On June 11, 1864, the enemy narched into town. The troops iuarding Lexington had been out-flanked by a Federal move across he North River I the branch of the

|||nes River which flowed by Lex-ngton. Defense of the town by adets was spoken of, but they had inly three ortille'-y pieces, and ^ere of "such a small body that ifcCausland consider^ it ijcaprac-leal. McCausland did order a de-aying action ho^^er , and by loing >0 saved the people of near-ly Lynchburg from the tortuous lays that were soon to be ex-lerienced by the people of Lex-ngton.

The delaying action was to in-lude the destruction of the bridge icposs the North River, by burn-ng, after McCausIand's titoops had ompleted their crossing- To

4vedite this n^issipn the cadet bat-ry element, prior to the ignition,

duce any, they broceded to once again rob her of [the small amount of food that she had begged from friends. She had nothing but crackers to feed her children. Mrs. Preston closes tnis particular ac-count in her diary with these words: "They scjt fire to the In-stitute about njine o'clock; the flames are now fenvolping it; the towers have falWn; the arsenal is exploding as I wHte . . ."

Prior to the iiuming that Mrs. Preston witnessed, a Colonel J. M. Schoonmaker I had entered the buildings of the Institute with an advanced contingent of cavalry; he found nothink that warranted total destruction I of the Institute, in his own words:" . . . my recol-lection is that I Was the first one to enter the Institute building, finding the cad( Its' school books ever since, open in their desks and diagrams partly finished oli the blackboard, and no trac« of khe building hav-ing been occupiejl by Confederate

f forces . . ." Colonel Schoonmaker's

who were vehemently against 'he burning. It was because of this dis-sension, along with the impassion-ed pleas of Schoonmaker and two fellow officers to Colonel D. H. Strother, Hunter's Chief Of Staff, company was assigned a

cadet drillmaster. Twelve cadets were assigned to General Magruder as cadre for gunnery and artillery drill. These twelve cadets were to form a nucleus for the first field artillery battalion ever created in America. These cannoneers were to be "called the "Richmond Howit-zers."

Not all was peaches and cream for the cadets. Their task- was hard would lose for him the loyalty and

support of his men, who were al-ready apparently discouraged with his treatment of the Institute.

That evening Schoonmaker was restored to, his command, and re-ceived a personal apology from Hunter.

Thus ends the story of an in-cident 'ihat was perhaps common in such a time of trial and tribula-tion, and yet plays a very uncom-mon role in the history of VMI. It is somewhat a comforting thought to realize tha* even the enemies of the South realized that the Institute represented more than just an assemblage of build-ings not uncommon to any other college or university; that men from the lowest private to the highest general (Crook) felt not enrnity, but respect and perhaps some admiration »*. the sight of peaceful serenity that confronted them, a serenity that must have exuded some of the spirit that has been contained within its walls

and exacting. At first they were disliked because of their youth. Said one recruit, George Bagby, from Lynchburg:

"ReveiUe was misery. I was three and thirty years old, a bom in-valid, whose habit was to bathe leisurely and eat breakfast after everybody else was done. To get up at dawn, to the sound of fife and drum, to wash my face in a hurry in a tin basin, wipe on a wet towel and go forth with a suffoca-te-d skin, and a sense of unclean-liness to be drilled by a fat little cadet from the Virginia Military Institute young enough to be my son. That, indeed, was misery. How. I hated that little cadet! He was always So wide awake, so olea% so interested in the drill; bis coat* tails were so short and sharp and his hands so big in his whita gloves. He made me sick."

However, these raw recruits, • awkward, and with two left fieet, soon grew soldierlike in air and ap< pearance.

under the eyes and training of these young cadets; and the hard-ships and privations of a soldier's life soon became bearable for them.

These ''fat little cadets" were 99 efficient'that.within a few week* the Confederacy was in danger of losing, their services as drillmafl> ters—^they were all being given commissions as officers. On July 15v 1861 the Superintendent re-ported that over one-third of tlM field officers in the VolunteeCV and two-thirds of those m tha Provisional Army, were graduates or ex-cadets. The number of cap-tains and lieutenants was about in the same proportion. Many volanteers were jealous because they felt that there was some pre-judice involved in these appoint-ments.

By the 1st of September the drill-masters were all gone from Camp Lee and the Institute was back in tl e teaching business with over one hundred new cadets to train. From April, 1861 to the fall of 1861 over 30,(X)0 recruits had been trained by the cadets that marched on April 21. Many of these drillmaster cadets would go on to greater glory as fighters for the rights of the South, some would die unknown on some small battlefield, but the South can never forget this Group of gray-clao boys who trained the raw recruits of the South into the well disciplined soldiers that struck ter-ror into the disorganized Union mob at Manassas and Chancellors-ville.

If sonie. b a ^ of bay.that w r e , ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^^^ iarticularly mofli-.laced on the bridge to be burned ^^^^

Reconstruction pf Uie Institute was slew and hard, it wasn't until 1866 that it was reopened. Prestige, rather finances, kep* the school going slowly but surely it climbed out of debt and began a period of building.

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"Died on the Field of Honor" For several generations a beautiful and impressive custom

has been followed at the Virginia Military Institute on tlie fifteenth day of May. Cadets in the several companies are as-signed to represent those who were killed or mortally wound-ed in the battle of New Market. The names of the dead are called with the current rolls and as the name of each New Market hero is called, his representative steps two paces to the front, salutes, and reports, "Died on the field of honor.^'

A similar parctice is followed at some of the alumni asso-ciation meetings held on New Market Day. There, after extin-guishing the light, alumni in different part of the room re-spond as the roll of the cadets who lost their lives in the bat-tle is called.

This custom is based upon an incident of history graphically described by Col. J. C.'Wise in his Military History of thes V. M. I. (p. 337):

"Latour D'Auvergne entered the military service of France in 1767 and fought with distinction throughout the early years of the Revolution in the armies of the Alps and the Py-renees. Time and again he distinguished himself in battle, and was offered promotion, but each time he refused it- As a simple captain, he led 8,000 grenadiers, known on account of their murderous bayonet charges as the Infernal Column. He left the army in 1795, but re-enlisted as a substitute for the only son of an old friend in 1799, and fought with Massena in Switzerland. Again he decUned promotion, but Napoleon, in 1800, caused him to be officially borne on the rolls as the 'First Grenadier of France.' He was killed on the 22d of June of that year in Bavaria, whereupon the whole French army mourned for him three days. His heart was embalmed, placed in a silver vase carried by his company, and his saber was placed in the Church of the Invalides. Every morning until the close of the empire, at the roll call of his regiment, his name was called and the eldest sergeant replied: 'Mort sur le champ de I'honneur.' "

SO TO SPEAK

EDITORIALS The Role of New Market

"The losing cause turns into the magic cause, The Victor has his victories for his pains."

Fulfilling the words of Stephen Vincent Benet, the Confederacy and the Virginia Military Institute have successfully, possibly inevitably, turned their losing cause into a magic Cause. The name of Stonewall Jackson shines brightest in the annals of the men asso-ciated with the Institute, and that cold, bloody day at New Market marks the single highest military achievement of the "citizen soldier." During the next four years the annual com-memoration of this battle takes on added sig-nificance in view of the centennial celebration now in progress. It seems an apt time to re-appraise our attitude toward the War Betw^n the States and the value we place upon the V.MI.'s part in it.

The V.M.I, tradition, of which the New Mar-ket Corps is so great a part, exerts one of the strongest forces upon Institute life and we tend to move forward always with an eye on what has been done in the past. This is both well and^ood, but we should consistently train that eye upon these traits and events which are most truly valuable. A battle in which boys took the part of men, and fought and died with honor, was certainly a stirring event and worthy of our remembrance. The same is true of an entire army of planters's sons and poor whites who fought a bitter war for four long years with great valor ^nd sur-rendered only their arms and not their hearts. But the courage of men in war is not neces-

sarily the greatest courage, and the meni i lived to forget their hate and endured bitter years since 1865 to build one naiot are the men we must not forget. In this scl ool of arms we must always keep in mind thi: i| is the men of peace who build the future

Here at V.M I. the incoming Rat is provl le

with a history of the Institute which he it learn and remember, but we find that great body of that history encompasses ctlj the War Betweent the States and the World Wars. Let us amend this empl first in the Rat Bible, then in our daily u}^ 1

Let us build our fraditioh upon the elem< tit

of peace and growth m our history, raUe than the glories of the days of war. And lell this change in emphasis extend beyond ;h« limits of this Institute and effect the en iril American tradition as well. Let us arrest hibl glorified circus we call the Civil War (enitl tennial and turn our memories to what |vvl| have learned from the mistakes that led td that war and turn our efforts and moneji tdjl constructive programs for building a w( rldl| peace for all time.

May those men who graduate this year ndl in the following years from V.M.I, rementer their roles as citizen soldiers, and be al be ready to give sacrifices for their coun times of peace as well as sacifices in tim war. We cannot build America on the for arms, we can only defend her. Without sacrifices in peace time, there can be little to defend.

Let New Market have its worthy placi V M.I. tradition, but do not build that dition upon New Market Day. Let us member that, but let us turn our thoug ts,l our energy, our hearts, to peace and thefu-j ture of man.

It has recently come to our at-tention, though the medium of one of the mass circulation, "slick" magazines, that the students of Harvard University are producing a movie. From what we read, we gathered that it was a rather fri-volous attempt at broad comedy. Now, the VMI Cadet Corps might gain a great deal from an under-taking of this sort and, at -tht same time, produce a truly great work of art. Nothing frivolous, you understand, but a serious con-tribution to world culture. The two previous movies on the Institute have abtyt run their separate courses and this proposed "flick" might also serve the secondary purpose of bolstering our reputa-tion, which some think has fallen

more recent, is . . . well, if you saw it, you know what we mean.

Our proposal is to build the plot around a Third-Classman who inhabited by youths dedicated to

determines to confess what he has done. The final scene shows him standing outside. the Command-ant's Office, waiting to discuss the possibility of a deal if he turns state's evidence against himself.

Fascinating, huh? We'll put in

a permit and begin shooting as

soon as someone donates a camera.

It has come to our attention that a minute, but over-vociferous, minority is engaged in activities which reflect, not only on the hon-or, integrity, and gentlemen's code of the Corps, but on our general sanity as well. We refer to that organization known as the . Milk (ugh) Drinkers (what a waste of capacity) of America (God help it!)i It is our carefully considered opinion that they are harming the meticulously constructed reputa-tion built by the peasants in grey over a period of 122 years. We understand that they have even persuaded the national organiza-tion of the Women's Christian Temperance Union that VMI is

develops a guilt comple.x after straining a Rat. The opening scene depicts the crime itself: the un-fortunate Rat, who was caught exhaling while at attention, is suspended from the ceiling by his thumbs; three hayrolls hang from each of his legs; the Third alter-nates between stroking the Rat's ribs with a feather and driving burning splinters under his toe-nails. Fadeout, accompanied by sadistic laughter.

During subsequent weeks, our hero discovers that his conscience will not let him rest, but demands that he confess and accept his

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abstinence and the exorcism of Demon Rum, and who long for nothing better than a repition of the arid years of the 1920's.

To these hypocritical deluders of ]-nice old ladies we have only to say that some people will stoop to any-thing to get publicity and another picture in the BOMB.

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in the past year. BROTHER RAT punishment. He becomes so pre is wea ing thin and is about due i occupied with his problem, that he for retirement to the greener pas- 1 accidentally goes down to the Mess

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Cauper To Adilress

• Dance Memorial Adflress alion WiHiatti Coupor, former

istoriographcr of the Virginia Ct ooljiijtary Institute, will give tKe ^a t it nnual Willis J. Dance Memorial

ecture at VMI at noon' Monday, lay IS. • i

Ie4 Colonel Couper, probably the

. . oremtwt authority on the history ,

VMI and its activities Iri the

he ivil War, will speak on the Bat-:

jXiyle of New Market and the parti-

^ ' ipation in it by the VMI Cadet

\vO;orps. Appropl^iately, the address

" being given on the annivetsary of

. he battle In which 10 cadets wer^

" iUed and 40 were wounded. The

K ntSiattle was fought on May 15, 1864.

a^e t Th's will be tenth in a series of

)ance Memoi-ial Lectures. This lec-

folk and eniered VMI in 1901 as

a third classman. He was graduated

tenth in his class in 1904 and whi'le

a cadet was a captain in the Corps.

He later attended MIT, worked

with the Pennsylvania Railroad

and was a Lieutenant Colonel in

the Construction Division of the

Arrtjy during World War I. He re-

turned to the Institute in 1925,

serving until 1994 as Business Exe-

cutive Officer and historiographer.

ISew Market Cadets

Honored In Painting By E. J. FYGI

The spirit of VMI is an in-

tangible thing that embodies not

only the spirif of the present Corps,

but the wealth of trtdition that

surrounds this transient entity

and gives it a third dimensional

link with th^ past. The past is so

linked with the present VMI that

the physical plant of the post is

ment of barracks. Transfer of the

large painting from one site to

another was at best a tricky en-

deavor, for then, as now, the mural

was almost an integral part of the

l,urroun?.ed with reminders of the building wall. The move was ac-

•VMI tradition"-particularly of complished skillfully and success-

series was established by Wil-

Ihiis' J. Dance, of Danville, as a

lj.^nemorial to his son, Lieutenant

' Villis J. Dance, Jr., a 1941 grad-

hiSiate who was killed i n ' a plane

C rash in World War II. Lectures

' n the past Have covesgd the lives

»f Robert tr. Lee, Stonewall Jack-\V(

Jd t( on, George Washington, and

ithers. The address will be open

, J o the public.

At 4 p.m. on the same day, a

)ortrait of Colonel Couper, done

)y artist Joseph W. King, will be

"<lmveiled in the auditorium of

l^^r'reston Library. The painting,

" hich is being given by a group of

jXII alumni, will be presented for-

fially by James E. Easley, of Hali-

Qf ax, Va., former President of the

Board of Visitors and a VMI class-

®' nate of Colonel Couper.

lat Colonel Couper was born in Nor-

left

the Civil War era.

Whenever the Civil War is men-

fully by the efforts of the artist and the then carpenter foreman,

.1 J ^ J m. George Hinty. Here, in the new tioned at VMI th« word New Mar- Memori^] Hall, the paint-ket; arises almost smiultaneously. ^^^ remained. This major engagement of the 1864 Corps of Cadets was the high-, Clinedinst's painting has since be-light of the Institute's contribution come symbolic of the valor with to the Confederate cause, and, as which the "New Market Corps" such, is suitably commemorated by met the challenge of the Civil War, a wall-sized mural of the event. , and of the fortitude shown by its

Completed in 1914 by Benjamin successor during the lean years West Clinedinst, the painting now of reconstruction. More broadly, reposes on the south wall of Jack-1 Clinedinst's work has become iden-son Memorial Hall. Familiar to all tidied with the tradition and spirit cadets matriculated since its com- i in its entirety, for the qualities

KET CADEtS.

The Institute's physical plant

and many . operational areas bear

the Couper iniprint. During his

tenure he had W integral part in

P«'"ting has become a ;demons'.-ated by the New Market

3 d i S c V L ou? dur the VMI tradition and, iCorps sti,, characterize the Corps

ing that time. tHese include most r . ? •

of th^ ma^or burlrfings now at the ^^^ ^ a r .

Institute.

In addition to his roles in con-

struction and finance, his activi-

ties included long-range plans, ad-

missions and records, athletics,

alumni affairs, an-d general opera-

tion of the Institute. One of his

major contributions to the Institute

is the extensive file system, con-

taining some 20,000 comfJlete fe-

cords-on individuals, activities, and

buildings.

The portrait of the cadets' |

charge at New Market was the

result of collaboration between '

talented brother rat Clinedinst;

talented toother rai Clinedist. i

Initial plans for the painting came

about in February of 1904— ten

years before the date of the mural's

completion of t lv old Jackson Hall.

In 1916, however, the Institute

was forced to tear down the old

hall to make room for an enlarge-

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V . M . I . S P O R T S C A D E T THE VMI CADET, FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1961

Keydets Edge Furman

Joe Gedro brought VMI back into the Southern Conference Baseball race with a masterful two hit, shut-out pitching performance over Furman here last Saturday.

The Keydets scored in the third when Lenny Fuscaldo walked, went to second on Ron Oilman's single, moved to third on a walk to A] Szaczapa, and came home on Ed Tolley's grounder to second as the Hornets elected to try fqr a double play.

Furman's half of the fourth saw Gedro in his only moment of trouble.. Furman loaded the bases with only one out; Gedro then pro-ceeded to trike out the next two batters thus pulling the ladder up on the Hometsand ending the inn-ing.

The last run was scored in thie seventh again by Fuscaldo. He walked and was bunted to second by Gilman. Szcazapa then drovie him home with a solid shot to center.

VMI's big left hander now has a pitching recohrd of 3 and 1. In his outting against Furram, Gedro Ktruck out fifteen - batters while only walking three. In conference play, VMI now has a 5-3 record •putting the Keydets only a half fame of the pace.

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Totals 30 0 2 0

Sportsmen Of The Week

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"THE GOLDEN HORDE" — I to r, 1st row, Bob Davis; 2nd row, J im McMahon, Kirk White, Bill Braithwaite, Lee Spessard, Warren McNa-Durret te . ) i

Huddle, Smiley Bumet te , Charlie Carlton, Mac Charlie WAtson, Larry Williams. (Not pictured, mara, Charlie Hammond, Pygmy Drescher, Wyat t

Cindermen Cop State Crown

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Szczapa rf 2 0 1 1 To]ley, Lf 4 0 0 1 Eddins, ss 4 0 0 0 Gedro, p 3 0 0 0 Willard, lb, 3 0 1 0 Jarvis, 3b 4 0 0 0 Minor, c 3 0 0 0 Fuscaldo, cf 1 ^ 1 0 Gilman, 2b 2 0 1 0

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nette and Charlie Hiammond nar-rowly missed scoring as they ran 4:34. In the 880 the boys piled it on with Larry Williams winning

shape. Things rapidly got worse I again and Charlie Watson finish-as the qualifying heats were run ing third. The two mile was the

It could have been bad news for the Keydet thinclads in Lynchburg last Saturday night, since the night was cold and the track dn poor

and very few men with yellow shirts on were in the finals of the

classic, though, as the Golden Horde showed its best form put-

shorter races. The Keydets only | ting three men under ten minutes scored five points in the shorter races on Stu Crow's third in the 440 and Ralph ©'Harrow's fourth in the 220. In the 100 yard dash and in the hurdles our boys in gold were shut out by strong con-tingents from Tech, William artd Mary, and Norfolk College. In the field events the situation was im-

and the other two within striking distance of that time. Jim Mc-Mahon, who has come from no-where this season, finished second with a 9:50.9. Following him closely were big Charlie Carlton with 9:57.1 in third, Bob Huddle with 9:59 in fourth. Kirk White with 10:04 in fifth, and Warren

(UVA); 4. MCUQWell, (VMI); 5. McMarlin (WM); Distance 152'10"

SHOT PUT: 1. Curt McDowell (VMI); 2. Ventura .(Rich); 3.

Coming mostly from the state of Virginia, but members of |il thre eclasses and representiii|g every curriculum in the scho«l with the exception of Chemistty and Math, the Keydet distance r\ ners in this week's . nominee "Sportsman of the Week". "Golden Horde", as this group has come to be called, has xun over all oppositions in the State and Southern Conference like the cele-brated golden hord^ of Genghis Khan overran Asia.. Starting this year with the most successfal Cross-Country season in the his-tory of VMI, this group has betti the mainstay of the track team In all the meets this year. Although distance events make up orfy 18.77c of the events in a track me^, this, group of hard-running, long-winded speedsters luis accounted for 249 of the team's 542/2/3 poinfc or 45.8%. This amazing total his been compiled by six first-class-men, iwo second classmenr and six third classmen. Led by Larry Wil-liams, the finest middle distance man in the area, with 89 poi^A this fine group of runners 3 r eludes Charlie Watson with 28 points, Chai'lie "Mustang" Carlton with 31, long, long distance run* ner Bob Huddle with 29, injury-riddled Bill Braithwaite with 20, the season's surprise Jim McMahon with 18, Lee Spessard with 18, Warren MeNamara with 5, Smiley Burnette and Kirk White, each 4, Mac Davis 3, and Charlie Ham-mond and Pygmy Drescher, oifc each. In addition to these, Wyatt Dure-tte moved up from the 440 ^ the half once to score three pointi This aggregate of runners h ^ given its strength for the last foi|r

Engel (UVA); 4. Payne (VPI); 5. I years and should continue to givjt Reese (VPI); Distance 47'tf' 1'fs strength for at least the ne«

120 HIGH HURDLES: 1. Tim i " ^ e r better typifiefl Thomas (Norf); 2. James the last we'ek when, by 3 . Saunders. (WM); 4. D i e d e r i c h V * ^ " n g twenty-six points out of

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proved. Led by Curt McDowell's i McNamara just out of the money seven points (first in the shot put, 'in seventh with 10: l i . This put fourth in the discus), Coach the Keydets well into the lead as

Marty Fisher's boys scored twenty the Golden Horde once

Rats Downed

By Ferrum Ferrum weathered the rain on

Wednesday, May 10, to defeat the Baby Keydets 17-2 in a baseball game at Rocky Mount.

Pete Parke/, Wilbur Hobbs, and Slick Andrews wielded big bats for Ferrum. Tracy Hunter hit a home run and a single to pace the Rat£.

VMI 010 001 0—2 5 4

ferrum 108 306 x 17 14 1

Tucker, Foreshaw (5) and Crenshaw; Henning, Frady (5) Afid Andrews.

points. Jackie Taylor scored six proved the margin of victory for with thirds in the broad jump and .the Keydets. The Mile Relay team bop, step, and jump, Dennis of Ralph O'Harrow, Darden Nelms, Merklinger took a second in the Javelin, Russ Pennington took a

the amazing Larry Williams, and Stu Crow then finished off the

fourth in the Hop, Step, and Jump, meet by winning their event in and Walt Kliene took a fifth in 3:24.3. the javelin.- At this point Coach Walter Cormack's boys were far behind Virginia and William and Mary while the boys from Blacks-burg were breathing down their necks. Onto the field at this mom-ent stepped the Goilden Horde, as the Keydet distance men have been known since they earned that sobriquet in Croes-Country season. In the mile this amazing group put five men under 4:35 to take eight points. Larry Williams won with 4:18.9, Lee Spessard was fourth with 4:27, Charlie Carlton was fifth with 4:32, and Smiley Bur-

SPORTS STAFF EDITOR CLYDE MUIRHEID

MAJOR SPORTS JOE WEAKLEY MINOR SPORTS GEORGE COLLINS Bill Young, Jim Johnson, Jim Smith, B*b Modarelli, Wallace Hawkins, Bill Cowardin, Stan Boleski, Si Bunting, Richard Linquisi, and Joe Roberts.

Summary: POLE VAULT: 1. Wray Martin-

(UVA); 2. tie Meyers (WL), Phil-lips (Norf), and Thomas (WM); 5. tie Northrop (UVA), Hall (Norf), Bishop (R-M), and Parker (WL); Height 12'6"

HIGH JUMP: 1. Bill Jeffries (WM); 2. tie McCraw (Norf) and Arnold (UVA); 4. Tripp (UVA) and Melton (VPI); Height S'l"

BROAD JUMP: 1. Howard Mel-to n(VPI); 2. Shelton (Norf); 3. Taylor (VMI); 4. Birge (UVA); 5. Partch (WM); Distance 2V8%"

HOP, STEP, AND JUMP: 1. Bart Partch (WM); 2. Melton Melton (VPI); 3. Taylor (VMI); 4. Pennington (VMI); 5. Kell (WL); Distance 42'11%"

JAVELIN: 1. Gene Engel (UVA); 2. Merklinger (VMI); 3. Ventura (Rich); 4. Horner (VPI); 5 Kleine (VMI); Distance 203'5" (New Record)

DISCUS: 1. Gene Engel (UVA); 2. Gooding (WM); 3. Johnson

'•''t^six, they led the team to an6»y^ state championship .

Thi^ads See» S C T i t l e '

The Ke^ets are i„„i„g t^eir hopes on depth a n d ^ . ^ ^ in th« distance funning even, this week-end in the .Southern track ehampionshjp, \ . I But even-.the presen^^^f ^ tablished point-getters 10^ Crow in the 440 and Larr^jj^-jj. liams in the 880 and mile m«y,>yjj offset Keydet weaknesses iiltvA^ field «vents.

Overall, Coach Walt Cormack ex 'l^cts competition to b^ absolutel) rugged in the SC gathering at No> folk May 12-13.

O f f to a so-so split in their f j ^ four du^ jmets, the Keydets nope thelgss have gotten outstandm performances from co-captains y ® liams and Crow.

Against Virginia in his most |c-cent outing, Williams set a sch<^ record in the mile run with a fiM

, . Huddle'4:16.8 docking. The Keydet «fjr (VMI); 8. White (VMl); Time !calls on triemendous stamina

® Ithis event as well as the 880 wh«» MILE RELAY: 1. VMI (O'Har- his 1:52.6 stands as the SC recort

row, Nelms, Williams, Crow); 2. ; Accustomed to a fuU day's w o *

(WM); 5. Hale (WM); Time :15.1 220 LOW HURDLES: 1. Kieth

Hardwicke (VPI); 2. James (Norf); 3. Sauders (WM); 4. Croft (WL); Diederich« (WM); Time :25.0

100 DASH: 1. Jim Hickey (WL); 2. Bickert (WM); .3. Hopkins (Lynchburg); 4. tie Kritzer (R-M) and Hardwicke (VPi); Time :10.2

22b DASH: 1. Dale Bickert (WM); 2. Faccio -(UVA); 3. Hop-

more kins (Lynchburg).;,-4. O'Harrow. (VMI); 5. Kritzer (R-M); Time :22.6

440 DASH: 1. Gil Faccio (UVA); 2. Shelton (Norf); 3. Crow (VMI); 4. Johnson (R-M); 5. Davis (WM); Time :49.9

880 RUN: 1. L4ri-y Williams (VMI); 2. Essex (WL); 3. Watson (VMI); 4. Simpsonf (VPI); 5. Krebs (UVA); Time 1:36.6 '

MILE RUN: 1. Lwry Williams (VMI); 2. Castagnola (VPI); 3. Simpson (VPI); ' 4. Spessard (VMI); Carlton (VMI); Time 4:18.9

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UVA; 3. W«(M; 4.-^VPl; 5. Norfolk; Time 3,24.3

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WELL I AM HAPPY to report th^t "Carry Back" did what the experts thought he would — without a doubt many of his backers had near heart failure for tiie first eight furlongs of the dash and then undoubtedly had heart failure when the little streak of flesh came up from ninth place to neck out "Crozier" at the wire. One would think that Crozier, if horses have feelings, would be somewhat put-out with Carry Back. This victory was the second one in which the Price horse re-tracted the ladder at the last moment, relegating Crozier to a Place showing. Carry Back is keeping his weight down now for the Triple Crown; if he can take the Belmont and the Preakness then it must be conceeded that he is quite a a horse — for his size.

THE KEYDET THINCLADS are, by this time, are well on their way in Southern Conference competition. Coach Cor-mack has envisioned a very tough time for his boys. It seems that, as usual, hopes for victory are laid on the strength of the distance runners. The trackmen are of course to be congratu-lated for their fine triumph at Lynchburg last Saturday, may their efforts today and tomorrow result in a repeat perform-ance. But it won't all be over with completion of SC compe-titiori ,the T^nclads hav^s yet to face VPI — it would be a shame if the trackmen suffered, assuming that they take the SC title, a defeat analogus to the one handed the Big Red last Thanksgiving by the Hokies.

THE YEAR HAS just about wound up the Southern Con-ference Competition — it will be most interesting to see just what out aggregate record will be. We have potential SC vic-tors in Baseball, Golf and Track. Even without these victories the years record is going to look very good in anyone's book.

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The Keydct varsity swim team recently held a banquet at the Mayflower Motel to announce the captains fpr the 1961-62 season and to give awards to outstanding swimmers. Distance swimmers George Collins and Ware Smith will lead the Southern Conference champs next season as Coach Ar-nold's tankman will attempt to gain their fifth straight crown and ninth in the last ten years.

Collins, a Second Class history major from West Haven, Conn., captained the undefeated Rat team of 1959; led the team in scoring and won the Southern. Conference 1500 meter freestyle in record time in 1960; and this year re-covered from a heart operation to annex the "Most Outstanding Swimmer Award" in winning in record times, the 220 yards, 440 yards, and 1500 meter freestyle events at the Southern Confer-ence meet..

Majoring in physics and hailing from Roanoke, Va., Ware Smith did not swim in competition until until entering VMI. But in the short time of three years, he has succeeded his fondest dreams by anchoring the winning Southern Conference medley relay in 1960 and placing fourth and fifth in the 1500 meters event, sixth in the 440 yd. freestyle and fifth in the 220 yd. butterfly event in the past two seasons.

Outgoing Captain Ken Ederle, first classman Jerry Myers, and Raine Gilbert were honored for their swimming feats over the years.

To conclude the evening, indi-vidual trophies were awarded to Nelson Prince, for "Most Points" this season; Don Kane, "Most Ver-satile"; Ware Smith, "Most Im-proved," and George Collins, "Most Dedicated."

Golfers Finish Fourth

In Southern Conference

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VPl won the Southern Confer-ence golf tournament at Richmond on May 10 with a total score of 614. They were followed by The Citadel wi^h 621, WVU with 625, and VMI with 635. The rest of the nine teams were 640 or better.

Bob Haney of George Washing-ton and Dick Home of the Citadel tied for low individual score with indentical rounds of 73-76—149. Hot on their heels were Ron Polane of VPI with 75-75-150 and 3rd Classman Bill Cowardin of VMI with 79-71-150. Cowardin's one un-der-par 71 was the lowest round of the two day tournament.

Following Cowardin for hte Key-dets were Jim Hiller with 80-76-156, Pete Vanderwerff with 80-80-160, and Jimmy Cox with 82-87-169. The loss of Bobby Howard, who cut his foot and was unable in the second round, was definitely felt in the final score by the up and coming Keydets.

The fourth place was the bes ever for VMI in the Southern Con-

ference Tournament, and the golf-ers returned to barracks much en-couriiged after a mediocre season. The outlook for next year is the best in a long time. AM six of the regulars are r&turning and six good Rat golferg wUl b eligible for var-sity competition in 1962.

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team on any given day and he does this under 50-flat.

Crow, who has had a :49.5 in the 440, also lends exceptional talent. The bespectacled flyer from Short Hills, N. J., is a pace-setter for the mile relay quartet and, like Wil-liams, is a dedicated trackman who ranks with the best in the State and conference.

Still another all-time VMI great, senior Bill Braithwaite, probably will miss his final outdoor season

j altogether due to a recent foot [operation. Braithwaite holds the VMI two-mile record in 9:24.6, which betters by three full seconds the SC outdoor meet standard set in 1949 by North Carolina's Mag-hill.

The forecast for the conference competition looks cloudy. A nar-row 73-66 defeat to The Citadel and a shocking 25-point setback at West Virginia bode trouble at Foreman Field. And fast-challeng-ing Furman, which upset VMI for the SC Indoor tide, might eas>ily make 1961 a Paladin year for the conference grand slam.

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Most people, when they think of a pistol, immediately conjure up one of three visions. In order of appearance they are: the Colt PEACEMAKER, the Colt .45 Automatic, and the German Luger. We suppose that these three some-how spell pistol, mostly because of the vast amount of publicity af-forded by two world wars and in-numerable TV Westerns. The fact remains though that there are other handguns available, for busi-ness and pleasure, that, while not so romantic, are just as effective, or -handy, depending on the use that the individual has in mind.

For those who hunt, or just shoot for fun, American arms-makers have turned out a wide variety of pistols that meet almost any need a person might have for a pistol. This article, while brief and very general will attempt a summarization of the weapons for the casual shooter.

Unless you are equipped to re-load fired cartridges—an adventure that requires about $80 to start and the firing of about 300 rounds per month to make it pay—the logical choice is a .22 caliber pis-tol. Ammunition costs 80 cents a box of fifty and is readily avail-able from most any hardware store. The weapons themselves are also less expensive, beginning at about 40 dollars for a good .22 and going well over the 200 dollar mark for some- of the more speciaUzed target pistols. The lat-

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Four companies are engaged, at present, in making such weapons as are mentioned above: Colt, Smith & Wesson, Ruger, and High Standard. All four make pistols^ of good quality and the choice of manufacturer is based, primarily, on personal opinion. After all some people like Fords.

For the modern-day Wyatt Earps, Colt and Ruger both produce a .22 version of the Peacemaker that that famous lawman put to such good use in our glorious West. Both are single action and must be cocked by hand for each succes-sive shot and both are good pis-tols.

The Colt frontier scout is the more authentic appearing of the two and also the less expensive, retailing at $49.50. The Ruger Single Six is heavier, because of its all steel construction, a bit easier to learn to shoot, because of its adjustable rear sight, and more ex-pensive, because of its $64.25 price tag. Ruger also makes a smaller single action, nominally tabbed "the Bearcat", that sells for the same price as the "Frontier Scout". Its too small, however to be much more than a toy—as "real" guns run. High Standard has entered the Western field too, by market-ing a whole family of facsimilies of semi-famous weapons in a series of double action, nine shot pistols which are called, appropriately en-ough, "Double Nine". These pis-tols start at $44.50 and go as high as $52.50. In addition, all three sell 12" barrelled versions of their basic models, with the word Bunt-line attached, at about a ten dol-lar hike in price.

To get away from the Western group. High Standard, who also makes firearms for Sears Roebuck under the name J. C. Higgins, has a dandy little 9 shot .22 on the market called the Sentinel. These are alloy framed pistols, that sell, with either 4 or 6 inch barrels for $39.50. The Sentinel

I can be had, at different prices, in all sorts of variations, including

, the colors of turquoise and pink— especially for those who want a

j turquoise or pink pistol. All things taken into consideration, the Sen-tinel is about the best bet" for an all-round sporting-type .22.

Colt and Smith & Wesson both make, so-called, conventional re-volvers in .22 caliber; Colt, in ad-dition to its line of single actions. Most of these guns, however are sub-caliber, or training versions of their line of "working handguns" and are too expensive for this article. Some examples are, Colt's .22 Official Police and S&W's .22 Combat Masterpiece.

This article has been devoted

strictly to the lower price rattge of pistols and, even more specifi-cally to revolvers. All of the qaanii facturers mentioned make automa-tic pistols too, but that's for another article. One more thing, as those of you in barracks who likd to shoot know all to well, gon nuts arc among the most opinionated people in the world. We've tried not to tread on any toes,.„but this is nearly impossible, so hold your horses and maybe there will come a chance to answ^ any horrified outcrys. »

VMI Inauguration (Continued frorh Page 1)

States and the (Jeneral Assembly I of Virginia, the chairman of the Virginia State ouncil for Higher EkJucation, and the former Com-mandant of the United States Marine Corps. Following the Super-intendent's Party in the Iilai(gural Procession will come the repre-sentatives of the arm6d forces of the United States, the VMI feoard of Visitors, the President o|f the

I General Alumni Association^ the I President of the Board of direc-tors of the VMI ^Foundation, the Mayor of Lexington, the Chairman

i of the Board of Supervisors of Rockbridge County, the Delegates from the other universities and colleges, the Delegates of many learned and professional societies, the Board of Directors of the VMI Foundation, the officers of the VMI Alumni Association, the for-mer deans of the faculty. General Davidson, the present Dean of the faculty, the faculty, the adminis-trative staff, the Commandant of Cadets, the officers in the Depart-ments of Military and Air Science, former distinguished members of the faculty

and staff', the memr bers of the Department of Inter-collegiate Athletics, and the repre-sentatives of the Corps of Cadets (including the regimental com-mander, the president of the Hon-or Court, and the upper three class presidents.

The colorful academic proces-sion, resplendent with regalia marking the various colleges and universities, will then move to the William H. Cocke, '94 Hall. Befrfre the arrival of the Inaugural Pro-cession, all guests not taking part in the procession and the Corps of Cadets will be seated.

The Inaugural Exercises will

begin at 11:15 a.m., and the Hon-

orable Giles Henry Miller, Jr. will

preside. The Regimental Band will

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l>l«y f#r th^ In»»«urri Proctwicn and will then play the "National Anthem" during the presentation of the Colors, t h ^ invocation will be led by the Reverend Churchill J. Gibson, the Rector Emeritus of the St. James Church of Richmond, t'ollowing the invocation, the pro-gram will continue with speeches by Governor Almond and Fred-erick Carrington Cole, the Presi-dent of Washington and.Le« Uni-verslty. The Glee Club will then sing the Inaugural Anthem, "The Words of King David." The In-augural address will be presented by Edgar F. Shannon, Jr., the Presi-dent of the University of Virginia, and this address vtrtll^^ f^ht^ed with a response by Gditeral Shell. Following the behedicti<)h by the Right Reverend Lloyd R. traig-hill. Bishop of Artkiffg, China, re-tired, the Inaugutal Exercises will be concluded by the Glee Club Singing the "VMI Doxologjr/*

Unfortunately, it was impossible to invite all colleges and tiniver-sities in the United States to send delegates to the Inaugural Exer-cises. Therefore, all colleges and universities in the State of Vir-ginia, all military colleges in the United States, all service aca-demies, and all colleges and uni-versities that were attended by members of the VMI faculty at the undergraduate and graduate levels were invited to send delegates. Among the distinguished delegates from these colleges and univer-sities, there will be eighteen col-lege presidents, six college deans, and four college vice presidents. Some delegates are members of the current VMI faculty, but they were appointed by the other in-stitutions.

Following the Inaugural Pro-

cession and Exercises, there will

be a review parade for General

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VMI Band (Continued From Page 1)

inteitrity and commanding ffttol-lect to lead us forward in a period In which wc must give more of our-selves and of our possessions to the defense of the free world, and he went on to say thai the spirit of Robert E. Lee must guide us "down the path of sacrifice and abnegation."

General Taylor spoke at the Civil War Centennial ceremony at the colonial Lee mansion, Strat-fort Hall, the birthplace and early childhood residence of General Lee. The ceremony marked West-moreland County's observance of the centennial and was jointly S ^ so r ed by the Robert E. Lee Metiiorial Foundation, w h i c h operates Stratfort Hall, and the County.

Mrs. Frank H. Griffin of Wawa, Pa., president of the fourtdation, made the address before an tendance of about 1,500 persons.

The 100 man Virginia Military Institute band gave a concert and conducted marteuvers on the two lawns of the mansion before the speaking program. Before the cort-,cert the members of the Band made a tour of the mansion and ground, and were given box lunches. After the concert. Gen-eral Taylor took time to walk some distance to where the band was performing to greet the cadet officers of the band. The Band left after the concert, eating sup-per at the University of Virginia cafeteria, and arriving at barracks a little after 10:00 p.m. Sunday night.

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Col. Stapleton Crutchfield, VMI Graduate and Teacher Led Active Military Career

Brig. Gen. Stapleton Crutchfield, an alumnus of the class of 1855 and a native of Spottsylvania Coun-ty, Virginia, served as Stonewall Jackson's Chief of Artillery during most of the bitter battles of the Civil War.

Borrt June 21, 1835 at Spring

County he entered VMI in August

1851 when he was only sixteen

years old. After staying a few

months he was sent home as an

'unpromising subject.' However, he

entered again the next year in the

lowest of the then three classes

and in 1855 he graduated at the

head of his class. He was then ap-

pointed Assistant Professor at VMI

' and he performed these duties so

well that in 1858, at the age of

twenty-three, he was made a full

professor. He stayed as such until

the spring of 1861 when the super-

intendent of VMI, Gen. Francies

H. Smith, was called to act on a

state war council and Stonewall

Jackson, his associates, and the

Corps of Cadets were ordered to

Richmond. Jackson was raised to

the rank of Brigadier and dispatch-

ed td Harper's Ferry. Prof. Crutch-

field, given the nominal rank of

Major, was given the task of drill-

ing and preparing for the field a

large number of students of the

University of Virginia in Rich-

mond.

In July he appealed for active duty and was commissioned a Ma-jor in the Ninth Regiment of the Virginia Artillery Volunteers. His first-command was the defense of Craney Island, point deemed of great inipo^tance for the protec-tion of Norfolk. He sooii became

< bored of this because of the laclr of action so he again applied for active field service. He was then appointed a Lieut. Colonel in the Fifty-eight Regiment of the Vir-ginia Infantry Volunteers and was

ordered into the campaign in West Virginia in the fall of 1861. After many bitter battles accompanied by freezing w e a t h e r Lieut. Col. Crutchfield found it necessary to go on sick leave. By the late spring of 1862 he was fully recover-ed so Jackson, who was extremely fond of Crutchfield, appointed him a full Colonel and Chief of Artil-lery,

Col. Crutchfield then began-to show his ability as a military leader by the large part played by his well managed artillery in the capture of Harper's Ferry in the summer of 1862 and again in the battle of Sharpsburg when twenty-seyen thousand Confederate sol-diers routed one hundred thousand Federals.

At the Battle of Chancellors-ville on May 2, 1863 he was per-sonally directing the fire of his batteries when both he and Jack-son were wounded almost at the same time. -vBoth of them were carried to the rear in the same field ambulance. Jackson died with-in a few hours but Crutchfield, badly wounded, returned to Lex-ington to recuperate. While re-cuperating he was elected to the chair of Natural Philosophy, the position left vacant by Jackson's death. |

In the spring of 1865 he was ap-pointed a Brigadier General and was ordered to Richmond to pre-serve order under the' pressure of an enveloping attack by Grant. He carried out that job with remark-able ability. In i May of 1865 he found himself without a staff offi-cer to send to Lee for orders or reinforcements M he started out by himself to obtain assistance. He was found a short time iater shot through th^ head and entire-ly lifeless. At th4 time of his death Gen. Crutchfield was within a month of being tihirty years old.

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Eight Cadets look on as Captain Edward F . Miesionezk, Fo r t Belvoir instructor, explains the principles of the f loat bridge. From left to right the cadets are: Bill Keech, Mitchel Kot, John Woodfin, Spike Callander, William Font , Lou Shuba, Harold Kur-stedt, and Jim Bickford. These eight Cadets will all be commis-sioned into the Corps of Engineers upon graduation. Nearly 200 First Classmen spent th ree days at the Engineer Center .

Four Cannon Led

Eventful Civil War Life In 1847, On approval of the Sec-

retary of War, Mr. Marcy, six can-non were sent to the Institute for training purposes. There were two twelve-pounder howitzers and four six-pounders. One of the twelve-pounders was used as an evening gun for many years, and it is now in front of Crozet Hall. The two howitzers were the first to travel;' Thomas J. Jacks<m took them to Harper's Ferry to help hang John Brown. With the coming of the War Between the States, all the cannon were moved north, visiting Fairfax Court House, F a l l s Church, and Bull Run. First Man-assas was their first fight; they were beside General Jackson at Bull Run when he earned the title ''Stonewall."

- From Manassas the guns went to Ball's Bluff, and then to th^

Peninsular Campaign where, oc-cupying one of the dams built by General Magruder, they held the Union forces at bay for fourteen days at a range of only 300 yards. The cannon also fought at the Battle of Williamsburg, Savage's Station, and Malvern Hill. Malvern Hill was the last fight for the six-pounders. All of the original six were with General Jackson at First Manassas, but with the production of the larger twelve-pounders, the four lighter gims were returned to VMI. One of the twelve-pounder howitzers was lost on the way back from Antietam.

Jf interest is the treological backgroi.iid behind the cannon. When the War began the Reverand Mr. Pendleton was the rector of the Episcopal Church of Lexington. However, he soon became General

Lee's Chief of Artillery. Under General Pendleton's c o m m a n d were two six-pounders from Rich-mond and two of the four from the Institute. These two cannon are called the Letcher Guns and are the-outside guns on either side of Jackson's Statue. It was tiiMI that the men came to call the foW weapons Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John for they preached such a powerful doctrine.

After returning to Lexington from the fight at Malvern Hill, the cannon were taken to Lynchburg with the Corps when Hunter burn-ed barracks, and helped re-pulse Hunter there. The cannou were taken when Richmond feUi and were later found in Waifc« ington. After much bickering, Geil. ral Munford arranged to have the cannon returned to the Institute; they left Washington for Lexing-ton on February 25, 1874. How-ever, the Letcher Guns could not be found. It was a year later that the Letcher Guns were located k i Fortress Monroe and sent home M VMI on March 3, 1875.

Five of the original six are now on the Post, of which the four six-pounders form Jackson's Bat-tery on the West Side of Barracks. They were used to train cadets until the fiftieth anniversary of Stonewall Jackson's death in 1913, when they were retired. RehabiU' tated soon afterwards, they agaia trained cadets for a short t i iM during World War 1.

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With thie ninety-seventh anni-versary of the Battle of New Mar-ket rapidly approaching, it seems" fitting to mention the impressive memorial to this historic event. Every visitor to the VMI post has looked upon the impressi\'e statue of Virginia Mourning Her Dead which stands in front of Nichols Engineering Building, and this

. beautiful monument has a very interesting background.

In 1893, a movement was in-augurated to create a memorial to the cadets who lost their lives in the Battle of New Market. Slowly but surely the movement gathered impetus until the project far ex-

, , ceeded the wildest dreams of its ! originator, Miss Margaret W. Free-

land. In far away Italy, one of the New Market cadets who had achieved international fame as a jjculptor, heard of the movement and wrote to the committee in charge of the memorial to offer his services. This famed alumnus. Sir Moses Ezekiel, said, "As orderly sergeant of Company C, Virginia Military Institute, I feel it almost a

j>.duty to write and say that if you up a memorial to my fallen com-rades in the battle, I hope to be the means of rendering my tribute to their memory in the work of iny hands in my art. My statue of •Virginia Mourning Her Dead' I have kept in plaster all these years —the mail-clad female figure is seated mourning upon a piece of breastwork and her foot rests upon a broken cannon overgrown with ivy, and she holds a reversed lance in her hands. This statue in bronze I would consider the most appropriate ideal representation of what is proposed to do."

The sculptor'"s offer was ac-cepted, and the committee decided

Corps Of Cadets to -affix large bronze tablets to the pedestal which would show the roster of the corps on May 11, 1864, at the time it set out on the campaign. This date they selected because they fejt it would be un-just to omit the names of those who were ordered to remain be-hind to guard the Institute. There-fore four large plates bearing the rosters of the four companies, and two smaller plates with names of the staff members and names of those who were killed and wound-

At graduation exercises in June 1903, a great reunion of the sur-vivors of the New Market battalion gathered to witness the unveiling of the impressive monument which had been sculpted in Berlin in the early 1870's. The original position of the statue was located on the parade ground not far from the present position of the statue of General "StonewalJ" Jackson. How-ever in 1912 Virginia Mourning.. Her Dead was moved to its pre-sent location.

It was also in 1912 that five of

the New Market cadets who were

I killed in the battle came to their

i final resting . place. Their bodies

jwere placed beneath the statue

i in copper coffins after having

been brought back to the Institute'

; in 1866, where they were buried

,in the Cadet Cemetery. In 1960,

I one of their teHow New Market

cadets, Charles G. Crockett, joined-

them beneath Virginia Mourning

Her Dead on New Market Day of

that year.

I "Peace and Rest at length have come

All the day's long toil is past

And each heart is whispering,

'Home, Home at last."

Below is the table listing service of the corps of cadets during the period of the war. The 15 calls to duty are serially numbered. A few of the incidents of the period have also been included. This chrono-logical chart would benefit those who would review hurridly the services of the VMI cadets.

1. November 25 to December 10, 1859 — The John Brown Expedition.

2. April 21, 1861 — The Corps left for Richmond, where the cadets drilled the Confederate troops as-sembled at Camp Lee and elsewhere.

July 4, 1861 — The Class of 1861 was graduated as of this date.

December 12, 1861 r- The Class of 1862 was grad-uated as of this date.

January 1, 1862 — The Institute reopened at T.ex-ington. The cadets who had been first classmen, having entered the military service, had been de-clared graduates and there were no first classmen during the remainder of the session. ,

3. May 1 to 20, 1862 — Cadets away with Stone-wall Jackson on the McDowell Campaign.

May 15, 1863 — Cadets escorted the body of Stone-wall to the grave.

July 3, 1863 — Class of 1863 was graduated in Lexington.

4. August 13, 1863 — Detail of cadets ordered out to capture deserteds from the Army.

5. August 25 and 26, 18^ — Corps marched to €k)shen. AvereU's first raid.

6. November 6 to 11, 1863 — Corps marched to Covington; AvereU's second raid.

7. December 15 to 19, 1863 — Corps marched to Rockbridge Baths and later to Buchanan; AvereU's third raid.

8. May 11 to 21, 1864 — Corps away from Lexing-ton on the New Market Campaign.

9. May 22 to June 6, 1864 — Corps away from Lex-ington manning trenches around Richmond on the interemdiate line between the Brook Road and the Meadow Bridge Road.

10. June 7 to June 11, 1864 — Corps returned to Lexington and retreated to the pass where the James River breaks through the Blue Ridge when the Federal Army under General Hunter entered Lexington.

June 12, 1864 — The VMI burned by order of

General David Hunter. 11. June 12 to 25, 1864 — Corps away during the

Lynchburg Campaign. June 27, 1864 — Fourteen members of the Clas.?

of 1864, all veterans of the Battle of New Market, were graduated and the corps was furloughed.

12. October 1, 1364 — As temporary buildings at Lexington had not been completed, some members of the corps asembled at Camp Lee in Richmond (due to confusion about the time and place of re-porting) and about thirty 6f them reported at the front. Others reported rapidly after October 4th.

13. October 27, 1864 — Corps under Lieutenant General Pemberton (then Lieutenant Colonel); camped at Poe's Farm as an infantry support of near-' by battery — at intersection of Williamsburg Road and the intermediate line. The front there was under Lieutenant General Ewell and the corps comprised a part of the Confederate forces of the Department of Richmond.

Decm'ber 12, 1864 — Moved from Poe's Farm to Alms House, Richmond; some of the cadets granted ten-day furlough to procure clothing, etc.

December 28, 1864 — Academic work resumed and con>s quartered in the Alms House, in Richmond , a buUding which had been completed about 1861 and utilized as a hospital. . . . .

14! March 11, 18^ — (iorps ortered to the line of battle between thie canal and the Westhaxn road, several miles west of'Richmond; expiected attack by Federal tavalry' u n d ^ 'General T i tzhu^ dispatched -by Sheridan'front. Columbia. Wittidrawn tw& days i"''

, - - ' . 19.. i pirU K ' l ^ — Corpa oeei4pied. Field's aba»- ,

d(Nied works on the Charles ^ t y Road at higfrt and -just before sunrise "(April 2nd) they relieved;the. last of the Confiederate infant^ and' a^umed com-mand of - this section of the line; Evacu^ orders issued and cadets'relieved late that (April 2nd) ' afternoon by a squadron of cavalry.

April 2, 1885 — Corps disbanded'^ at the Alma House ofl eve of evacuation of Richmond by the Con-federate forces, each cadet finding his way home or elsewhCTe as best .he could. A considerable number of them followed the canal to Columbia, Fluvanna County, and dispersed there.

October 16, 1865 — Academic work resumed at VMI in Lexington.

Gen. Slieplierd To Attend Book Presentation At VMI

A 131-volume set of the "War of the Rebellion" will be presented to the Virginia Military Institute library here next Monday.

The books, a complete compila-•tion of the official records of the Union and Confederate Armies, are being given to the Institute by Laurens M. Hamilton, of Washing-ton. The presentation is being made in honor of General Lemuel M. Shepherd, a 1917 VMI graduate and former Commandant of the United States Marine Corps. General Shep-herd is chairman of the Inter American Defense Board. He is a native of Norfolk.

The presentation will be made at 11 a.m. in Preston Library and will be attended by General Shepherd and Mr. Laurens. The ceremony will be among the activities of the VMI's New Market Day observance.

General Shepherd, who was com-missioned a second lieutenant in the Marines upon his graduation from the Institute, served in France in World War I and was wounded

twice in action in Beiileau Wood. He was wounded again in the Meuse-Argonne offensive.

Early in World War II, he took the Ninth Marine Regiment over-seas as part of the Third Marine Division. He was promoted to brigadier general in 1943, He later participated in the Cape (iloucester operation and commanded the First Provisional Marine Brigade in the invasion and recapture of Guam. Subsequently, he command-ed the Sixth Marine Division in the operations on Okinawa. He received the surrender of Japanese forces in the Tsingtao, China, area where he had taken the Sixth Marines from Okinawa. In the Korean War he was in command of the Fleet Marine Force, Pacific, and parti-cipated in the Inchon landing and the evacuation from Hungnam.

He became Commandant of the Marine Corps in 1952 and served until his retirement in 1956, when he was appointed chairman of the Inter American Defense Board.

ISetv York Alumni

To Hold Dinner

'New 'Market Day I

At regular intervals throughout

the year, the various chapters of

the VMI Alumni Association held

lunches and dinners. A large num-

ber of these chapters held annual

meetings near the time of the

New Market Day Anniversary. One

such chapter, the New Vork

Alumni Association, will hold its

«nnuafl New Market Day Dinner

at the Columbia University Club,

located on 4 West 43rd Street,

New York on Wednesday evening.

May 17, 1961 at six o'clock.

The guest of honor and principal

speaker for this New York meet-

ing will be Lt. Colonel Jeffrey

G. Smith, Commandant of Cadets

at the Virginia Military Institute.

The message he wiU deliver is

entitled "The Institute Today."

Sometime during the evening the New Market Roll Call wUl be sounded. As each of the names of those who died is called the tradi-tional answers "died on the field of Honor, sir" will be given by some member of the association.

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Jackson Dies In Error At Ghancellorsville, Va.

On the atternoon of May 2nd,

1863, General Thonnas J. "Stone-

wall" Jacksoii swung his sword to

the side of the Chancellorsviile

Turnpike and dismounted. He turn-

ed to several officers following

him, and directed Thomas i .

Munford, a former adjutant of the

VMI Corps of Cadets, to proceed

with certain specified orders. Mun-

ford, upon noting the presence of

other high-ranking officers who

had formerly been professors or

cadets at VMI, noted this to Jack-

son, whereupon the General re-

plied: "Yes, the Institute will be

heard from today."

That night, General Jackson in-

sisted on riding in the vicinity of

the front lines o£ his troops, with

the purpose in mind of determine

ing their exact position for the

battle on the morrow. His loyal

staff accompanied him, after

futi'lely trying to dissuade him

from this rash action, since Federal

skirmishers were believed to be

drawn up within a few hundred

yards of their own lines, and as *

fact they were. As they rode

th rou^ -the dark woods, other bt-

ficers "fained them, and to the

tense ' mdv pervons troops in the

front this body of about

into your own men!''

Major Barry of the Eighteenth

North Carolina screamed: "Who

gave that order? It's a lie! Pour it

into them boys!"

The woods erupted with fire and

smoke and volleys were sent point

blank into the reeling horsemen;

Jackson's group went down in a

turmoil of pitching horses, gasps

of surprises, shock, and pain. Jack-

son was hit twice, one ball smash

ing him badly in the left shoulder,

and another penetrating his right

hand. Sorrel, mad with fright,

bolted away, almost unhorsing him.

With superb horsemanship, he

managed to swerve towards his own

lines, and was caught in the arms

of one of his officers.

The volley had been devasting.

Of Jackson's stftff group, only two

survived on horseback without a

scratch. Later, fourteen dead

horses were counted, along with

several wounded men. The rest

were dead. General Jackson, weak

from loss «f blood, was helped to

the field hospitifil of the Second

Corps, pver four miles away, only

through the couragepusness and

ioyality of his companions, who

risked their own lives once again.

Once there, Ihe General's left arm

twenty horsemen may well have had to be an)t>utated with the best

seemed like^he arrival of an attack-

ing Federal wave* A few scattered facilities' available; Jackson, how-

ever, seemed in fairly good spirits. shots rang out, ^nd a staff officer ,The following day he was removed

leaped out ahead of the group to- from the battlefield to Guiney's

ward the kneeling unseen men.

'Cease firing! You are firing

taken to Lexington for recovery.

He seemed in an.excellent statr*

of health, but this was not to last.

On May 7th, he awoke with great

suffering, and it was revealed that

he had contracted pneumonia; his

condition want from bad to worse.

His wife rushed from Richmond to

his bedside in time to comfoirt him

in his last hours, which were evi-

dently drawing near. At one point

^ e asked him if he wished to be

buried in Lexington, to which he

replied," "yes."

On the afternoon of May 10th,

1863, General Jackson, without the

least pain or struggle, passed from

this earth to his beloved Maker,

whom he had so devoutly wor-

shiped.

Jackson's body was returned to

Lexington with full military hon-

ors. The Institute's General Orders,

No. 30, on May 13th read: "It is

the painful duty oiP the Superin-

tendent to announce to the officers

and cadets of this institution the

death of their late associate and

professor, Lieut. Gen. Thomas J.

Jackson." The Cadet Battery fired

gun salutes, every half-hour the

following day from sunrise to sun-

set,, and the personnel of VMJ wore

the, badge of mourning for thirty

days. On JYiday, May 15th, fun-

eral service were held in the Pres-

byterian Church where Jackson had

beep ^ deacon, and his coffin was

placed on a horse-drawn caisson of

a battery he had commanded. Eight

companies of cadets made up the

gie^ter part of the escort, and his

body was laid in its final resting

place in Lexington cemetery.

"Stpnewall" had made his last

march.

New Staff Brings New Ideas To Mess Hall

On April 5, 1961, the A. L.

Mathias Company of Virginia was

invited to undertake the manage-

ment of the mess hall, due to the

resignation of Mr. B. A. Allen,

VMI Food Service Manager. The

choice of the new management

personnel developed directly from

the survey of the mess hall made

by the Mathias Company.

In February, the Mathias Com-

pany sent, at the request of Gen-

eral Shell, a contingent of its staff

to make a complete investigation

and survey of the mess hall, with

the purpose of determining the

necessity of any changes in

operational methods. This investiga-

tion covered everything from the

purchasing of food, its preparation,

and its service to the individual

tables.

The final report indicated the

need for much greater variety in

menus, with the inclusion of sea-

sonal produce, larger variety of

meats, and preparation of foods

under stricter recipe control, Thtjs,

the primary aim of the new mess

hail' management is to establish

as soon as possible such changes

as would improve menus and, at

the same time, conserve waste.

From the 5th through the 17th

of April, the new management

consisted , of a food service man-

ager, its chief chef, and a dieti-

cian. The dietician left on the 17th,

leaving the chef and food service

manager to remain at VMI until

June 11th, when the present con-

Station, where he himself hoped

to rest a short time before being

Three Way Tie In Speech Contest

By STEWART BUETTNER

The first in an-aiiiual series of

speech contests was held ., last

Tuesday night in Scott Shipp Hall.

Oddly enough it resulted in a

three-way tie for first place. The

laurels were shared by Cadets

Warren McNamara and Randolph

Hamner, and by Hunter Manson of

Washington and Lee. There was

also a two-way tie for second place

between Cadet Benny Peay and

William Buyce of Washington and

I Lee. As the results indicated, the

' judges. Dr. J. J. Murray,' Dr.

Charles Turner, and Lt. Col. George

L. Roth, had a very difficult task

in picking the winner.

Eldridge Blanton introduced the

program by explaining that the

t purpose of the contest was to re-

cognize the outstanding students

in the speech classes and to high-

light the year's work. He then turn-

ed ths program over to Cadet John

McWane who introduced the first

• speaker from VMI, Benny Peay.

"The subject for Peay's speech was

Peace Corps. He started with

Will jjjgg pf g "peace corps"

'n 1910, anfi traced it through the

Civilian Conservation Corps until

Kennedy's reintroduction of the

Idea. He devoiea ^^^^ his

speech to the necessity ot

ing and training the "peace corps-.

' men", especially in the face of

Communism. Then Bill Boardman

of Washington and Lee introduced

that school's first speaker, William

Buyce, who spoke about the "Cross-

roads of Destiny." This speech was

•devoted to the German problem,

which he said could be solved by a

Germany—united in freedom.

Washington and Lee's second

participant, Hunter Manson spoke

on "Democracy in India." He stated

that India is now experimenting

with democracy, and, if this ex-

periment fails, Communism will

be the only alternative for the In-

dian people. Manson based the

, case of the Indian crisis on the

^ lack of food and jobs. For this e*-

pfriment to prove successful, Man-

son said that the United States

must make lunger term committ-

ments with India, provide her with

greater aid, and educate :the In-

dian peoples in the face of the

Communist menace. Failure for the

United States to do this would

result in the failure of the ex-

periment, and thus victory for the

Communist economic policy.

Cadet Warren McNamara spoke

on "General Pershing—The Living

Link." This speech, though purely

of an informative nature, gave

both sides of General Pershing's

personality. It portrayed not only

his ability as a natural leader,

but also his warm, friendly inner-

self. The speech traced his life

from the days when he was a

First Captain^ at West Point, until

he served as an advisor to-Presi-

dent Roosevelt during the Second

World War. It was interesting to

note that General Pershing won a

Pultizer Prize for his memoirs.

Finally, Cadet Ran Hamner

spoke on the Russian challenge to

American superiority. Throughout

his speech, he contrasted this Rus-

sian challenge to the World Series.

He said that it would not be the

best of seven games that decides

the victor, just a one shot affair

in which the winner would truly

be the "World's Champion."

Hamner felt that Russia's chal-

leiigo Ues in two -fields! economy

an(j propaganda. Hp then quoted

figures from THE U S NEWS AND

WORLD REPORT which s t a t e d

'.hat the United States ia now ahead

of Russia in production and will

be further ahead in 1970. He,felt

that Russia was a real crowd-

pleaser with her "sputnik" and

man in space, but as long as the

United States steps up her pre-

sent foreign aid policy, we have no

fear of being overtaken by Russia.

The evening's speeches present-

ed not only a picture of our talent-

ed public speakers, but also an in-

sight into the world problems and

how the future leaders of America

would resolve thpm. The contest

was fiot only helpiful to (he speak-

ers, but proved helpful to students

in the audience who might be in

terested in next year's content.

A1 Mathais Co. supplies two new members to mess hall staff.

From left to right: W. Rannake; Supervising Chef from The A1

Mathais Co., J. White; Resident Manager from The A1 Mathais Co.,

and A. Lumbo; VMI Chef.

Science Foiiiidatioii Head To Deliver Principal Address

To VAS Here Today An official of the National day meeting, with VMl as host

Science Foundation will make the institution. Major General George

principal address here Friday at R. E. Shell, VMI Superintendent,

the assembly for the Virginia Aca- : will welcome the scientists at the

demy of Science at the Vii-ginia Friday assembly.

Military Institute. i Running concurrently with the

Dr. Arthur Roe, head of National VAS meetings will be the sessions

.Science Foundation's planning j of the Virginia Junior Academy of

group, will speak to the scientists Science, composed of school-age

science students from throughout

the Old Dominion. The junior

scientists program runs from 3

p.m. Wednesday through noon Fri-

demy's thirty-ninth annual meet- day, while the senior organization

ing, which runs from Wednesday has a program which goes from

through Saturday. ; 8 a.m. Thursday through noon Sat-

Scheduled also for the assembly urday.

tract will terminate.

The dietician, before she left, prepared the menus for the re-mainder of the school year. Al-though the menus are based on the Army Quartermaster's Thirty Day Master Menu, which the In-stitute has been using for several years, they were modified to in-clude more consistency of taste, color, texture, and quality.

The present agreement between

the Mathias Company and the In-

stitute is termed a "management

type" contract, under which the

i Institute provides all food, sup-

plies, labor, and equipment. I f

the contract is removed, it will

probably be a "board type" under

which the Mathias Company will

supply the food and labor, with

the Institute providing the neces-

sary equipment.

At the present time, the Admin-

istration is deeply concerned over

the amount of waste in the mess

hall. Under Virginia Law, no left-

overs whatsoever may be sav«d

from one meal to another, result-

ing in the fact that all food that

not consumed by the cadets

oiust be throvra out. Du£ to various

difficult conditions existing in t)ie

mess hall at the present time, it

is extremely difficult i w the food

managers to minimize such wastes

and at the same time satisfy the

cadets.

When questioned about these

"conditions". Colonel Hanes, VMI

business executive officer, named

several. The main problem concerns

the sending out for seconds. A

great many tables sent out for

extra servings of various vege-

tables, and then don't even finish

the first bowl. Secondly, the num-

ber of men "falling out" from meal

formations varies the number of persons eating at each meal.j If

only three or four men are eating

at a table for a particular meal,

there is bound to be a great deal

of waste. This problem could be

solved by the "closing-in" of

tables. In this way, practically all

the tables would be filled at each

meal.

Until the waste in the mess hall

is stopped, it will be impossible to

provide a much greater quantity

of such things as meat and milk.

Since, by state law, the mess hall

may not operate at a loss, the In-

stitute may not spend more than

it receives in board payments from

the cadets. If the amount of waste

is reduced, there would be more

funds to spend on such things a3

meat and milk, without raising the

cost of the cadets' board.

on "Education for the Future." The assembly will be held at 8 p.m. in VMI's Mailory Hall and comes near the close of the Aca-

are the election of officers and

the presentation of the J. Shelton

Horsley Research Award, which

goes to the scientists with the most

highly meritorious research paper.

Dr. Wilson B. Bell, of Vir?; ia

Polytechnic Institute, is president

of the VAS and Dr. Horton H.

Hobbs, of • the University of Vir-

ginia, i« president-elect.

Dr. Roe, a native of Colorado,

received his bachelor of science

degree from Oberlin College, his

master's degree at Colorado Col-

lege and his Ph.D. at Northwestern

University. He entered teaching

and served on the faculties of sev-

eral institutions of higher learn-

ing, including Cplorado College,

I>ePaul University, University of

professor of chemistry at the Uni-

versity of North Carolina. He ad-

vanced to associate professor and

in 1949 became a full professor at

North Carolina. In 1949 he became

chairman of the Department of

Chemistry and in 1955 Kenan

Professor at North Carolina. He

held these positions until July,

1960, when he joined the National

Science Foundation.

He has served OQ thei* stififf of

Oak Ridge National Laboratory,

the Office of Ordnance Research,

and as a counselor of the Oak

Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies.

While at North Carolina he served

on two edcasions as chairman of

the Division of Natural Sciences

and was director of the Radio-

isotopes Laboratory. He has writ-

ten numerous technical articles

and has contributed to some 43

publications.

More than 800 junior and senior Oklahoma City, University of Ul-I scientists w« expecUd for the four- inois, and in 1941 became assistant

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Cadets Letters Are Basis For Book On New Market By FRANK FROSCH

A much clearer insight into just •what actually happened »t New Market and the events leading up to it will be provided in a new book written by Colonel John G. Barrett and Major Robert K. Turner. The volume will be entitled LETTERS OF A NEW MARKET CADET and will be based upon exactly what the title implies—the letters of a VMI cadet. Jacqueline Beverly Stanard, that were sent home to members of his immediate family. The letters to be used cover a period from one month after the start of Stanard's Cadetship at VMI to the Battle of New Market on 15 May 1864. The letters them-selves provide certain insight denied by dry, completely factual historical reports.

Specifically dealt with . in the book by means of the letters are the conditions of the South, the war in general around the Shenan-doah Valley area at this time, the hardships and tribulations that Cadets of VMI had to bear in the war years, and, finally, the con-

troversial Battle of New Market it-self. The Battle had to be covered by means other than letters, how-ever, as Cadet Stanard mailed his last letter from Staunton on 12 May 1864, three days before his death at New Market.

The 100-page volume will pay particular attention to the feelings of the Cadets and their intensified longing for battle. Many fruitless marches were made into the moun-tains to repel an enemy that never appeared and, after that, the long wait back at camp would begin once more.

Concerning the authors. Colonel Barrett receiN' ed his doctorate degree in 1956 at the University of North Carolina, and has spent con-siderable time dping research on the Civil War, especially that fought in North Carolina. Major Turner, who is a member of the VMI Class of 1947, went on to re-ceive his Ph.D. at the University of Virginia in 1958. This is not the first major work on the Civil War undertaken by Colonel Bar-rett and will certainly not be the last as this book will be followed

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String Quintet Performs Tonight In J. M. Hall

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The program for this evening includes the Piano Quartet in G Minor (K 478) by Wolfgang Ama-deus Mozart; the double bass does not have a part in this selection. This is one of two quartets > writ-' ten by Mozart and'is one of the first examples of this particular in^ strumental combination conceived in' true chamber style. The mood of the Quartet is rather reflective, mournful, and dark, although the last movement, a Rondo, is exu-berant and joyful and full of danc-ing melodies.

The ensemble will play next, as a Trio, the Piano Trio in D Major, Opus 70, No. 1, by Beethoven. The piece was written in 1808 when the composer had already lost a large portion of his hear-ing and is dedicated to a young Hungarian Countess' who, like

affliction, nameiy^paralysis in both jf' legs. The piece ia en»o^ni*ly oJiii^ed aAd makes &eg? ..xftma"nds upoih^,Jto' rtiusicians.• .l^jSifecularly J ftoteworthy in thtt ccupipiosition is the s«eond tnovemea tV jfrom whose sombet* inood thb piece derives Its nickname, "The Ghpst." It is one of feeethoven'9 most famous pieces of music for the small ensemble.

After an intermission, the Lywen Strings an-d Piano will con-clude with Franz Schubert's Quintet in A Major, Opus 114, "The Trout." This number is one of th most lyrical and joyous of all compositions for chamber or-chestra and takes its name from|| the "Forelle" variations which are found in the fourth, or andantino -movement of the Quintet. Schu« bert wrote th^ composition^when lijes was 21 ye£n:i3 old,, ahd it w i ' fiut one of the 7lMi compositions h«j wrote during his ^ brief lifetime. For (the listener not oriented in fine chamber music; this conclud ing selection will be the most en-joyable. Its enjoyment does not stipulate a "practiced" ear; rather, the songs and phrases herein are as readily listenable and enjoyable as any that one hears in music— popular or classical.

Here for the concert will be Mr.-and Mrs. Timmins, from Dallas, Texas, whose son was a graduate of the Institute in the class of 1949— C. Lt. Timmins was killed in Korea shortly after his graduation and, to

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English major and took much in-

terest in good music.

Morgan Bros. BAG CO., INC.

Richmond, Virginia

The VIRGINIA HOUSE

Restaurant HO 3-3643 S. Main St.

Lexington, Va.

W a g g y ' s

JEWELERS 35 S. Main St. HO 3-4121

The Home of QuaUty .

LOUIS J. LEITNER, INC.

CLOTHIERS

509 High St - Portsmouth, Va.

HALIFAX INSURANCE AGENCY

Complete Insurance Service

Halifax, Va.

DUFFS REBEL RESTAURANT

The Pride of Dixie

Winchester, Virginia

Compliments of

THE BUFFER and

THE SWITCHER

ROCKBRIDGK MOTOR CO. IN C. , ^ ^

Dodge — Dart — Lancer |

Lexington, Virginia.

Compliments ol ^ MR. & MRS. rHANK

C O M P O

s ^ a f S ^ N N .

New England Tree Expert Co, Boston Northampton Newhaven

Line Clearance Exclusively Subsidiary of Asplundth Tree Expert Co.

THE PEOPLES NATIONAL BANK OF WARRENTON

SERVING FAUQUIER COUNTY

Call or write for reservations T R A V E L T O W N

Motel — Restaurant — Ice Arena Cloverdale. Virginia