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The non-profit park’s Hall of Valor still offers its three-tiered war story: the heroic and poignant part played by 247 Virginia Military Institute cadets in the Battle of New Market, the brilliant Valley Campaign of Stonewall Jackson, and the massive on-to-Richmond campaigns of eastern Virginia.
But for the next two years this regular fare will share billing with 32 display panels and 100-plus artifacts of post-colonial life in the Valley. Artifacts have been loaned by Valley residents and regional museums.
Panel subjects include national origins, migration, farming, transportation, houses and barns, government, artisans and industry, education, medicine, and religion.
“We’re in the center of the Valley. We felt it was an opportunity, \ almost a duty, for us to present this 2 untold story at this time,” said Rob- I ert S. Myers, park director. ;
He said a generous grant from \ the Virginia Foundation for the Hu- • inanities and Public Policy made the 2 exhibit possible. Also, he added, the 2 park had the benefit of research and \ wntiny by a number of authorities * on the period. ‘
For the visitor to the park, the * new presentation is offered at no in- » crease in the admission charge ($3 2 for adults, 75 cents for children), for I the museum. Admission is free to ! the 260-acre Battlefield itself, in- ; eluding the restored 19th century • farm that lay at the center of the ; fierce 1864 Battle of New Market.
Nor will there be a charge for the 20th annual reenactment of that bat- < tie, which will take place at the park ‘ May 10 at 2 p.m. The event usually 2 draws in excess of 12,000 spectators. ]
The park is owned by VMI, the i gift to the state military and liberal « arts college by an alumnus, George - R. Collins. It opened in 1967 as a me- : morial to the 10 cadets killed and 47 : wounded in the battle here.
It was a federal army’s effort to ; cut the railroad at Staunton, 50 • miles southwest, that led to the Bat- ' tie of New Market. A scratch force < of Confederates, joined by the ca- ! dets, turned back the Union foray. ; Some 10,000 troops on the two sides ; were engaged.
James J. Geary, a former Associated Tress newsman and a member of the Society of American Travel Writers, has been associated with Civil War museums for the past 25 years. He served as executive director of the Virginia Civil War Centennial Commission.
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