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A new million-dollar museum to capsule the Civil War as it evolved over four years is under construction at New Market.
Within its walls visitors will find a graphic introduction, through exhibits and motion pictures, to the military operations of the entire conflict.
The museum will be operated non-profit through a private bequest to Virginia Military Institute, whose teen-age cadets of 1864 it memorializes.
It will serve also as a visitor center for the 160-acre New Market Battlefield Park which opened in 1967. The park, lying in the northern part of the Shenandoah Valley, is within three hours driving distance of all of the major Civil War battlefields of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania.
“I know of no existing museum which attempts so panoramic a view of the Civil War as we will give here,” said James J. Geary, park director. “While military developments in Virginia will
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