Cadet Stewart’s fascination with an 1855 Colt revolving rifle on display led to ... Institute's firearms collection. VMI's Virginia Museum of the Civil War is located on the site of the 1864 ...

As a member of the New Market Firing Party at the Virginia Military Institute, a group which performs ceremonial rifle salutes when ... Field of Lost Shoes, a Civil War drama concerned with ...

VMI cadets stand ... fighting during the Civil War. Their ancestors having served in battle, only VMI cadets and no other military academy can fix bayonets to their rifles and only they have ...

Tom Farrell, one of the writers and producers of a movie about the Civil War Battle ... certainly want VMI to participate,” Farrell said, “and they’ll be busy.” The cadet corps fought ...

The sacrifice of the VMI cadets has often been recalled in books ... is a popular stopping point for Civil War buffs, tourists, and the curious. Wayside markers outline the events.

Movies about the Civil War are almost ... they're fighting. One cadet tells his fellow soldiers, "We should not be fighting to keep people in chains." The cadets defend VMI's African-American ...