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Southern soldiers and V.M.I. Cadets fell in the Battle of New Market, Virginia, on May 15, 1864, and were buried in the town’s cemeteries. The dead named here came from the 23rd Virginia Cavalry, the 22nd Virginia Regiment, Humes’s command, Lowry’s Battery, Chapman’s Battery, the 53rd North Carolina Regiment, the 62nd Virginia Regiment, the 30th Virginia Regiment, and the 26th Virginia Battalion, along with men whose regiment was unknown and eight unidentified dead. The inscription honors them as Confederate heroes of the war of 1861-65.
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New Market, Virginia · United States
