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Virginia Military Institute, the nation’s first state military college, was founded in 1839 on the concept of the citizen-soldier. Its Corps of Cadets fought as a unit in the 1864 Battle of New Market. Its faculty included Confederate General "Stonewall" Jackson and oceanographer Matthew Fontaine Maury. George C. Marshall, a 1901 graduate, later served as Army Chief of Staff in W.W. II and as Secretary of State, devising the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe, and he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Lexington, Virginia · United States
