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The\n         Confederate force then in the Valley, commanded by Gen. John\n         Imboden, was reinforced at Staunton by troops commanded by\n         Gen. John C. Breckinridge, and by the Virginia Military\n         Institute cadets commanded by Major Scott Shipp. The\n         Confederate troops marched north where the battle took place\n         on the afternoon of May 15. About 4 p.m., Sigel ordered a\n         retreat and fell back to Strasburg.","The individuals largely responsible for compiling the New\n         Market collection had strong ties to VMI and to the battle.\n         Henry A. Wise, the son of John Cropper Wise and Anne Finney,\n         was born in Accomac County, Virginia in May 1842. He graduated\n         from the Virginia Military Institute and served in the\n         Confederate Army until captured and paroled in 1862. During\n         the period of his parole, he returned to VMI as a faculty\n         member and tactical officer. Wise was in command of Cadet\n         Company A at the Battle of New Market and took command of the\n         Cadet Battalion after Scott Shipp was wounded. After the war,\n         Wise resumed his career as an educator in the Tidewater area\n         and in Baltimore, Maryland. He died at Norfolk, Virginia on\n         July 11, 1918.","Benjamin Azariah Colonna, the son of John Wilkins Colonna\n         and Margaret Jones, was born in Accomac County, Virginia in\n         October 1843. He graduated from the Virginia Military\n         Institute in 1864 and while at VMI took part in the Battle of\n         New Market as Cadet Captain of Company D. Following the war,\n         Colonna worked as a surveyor and civil engineer. He maintained\n         a lifelong interest in the battle and was responsible for the\n         accurate mapping of the New Market battlefield. 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In addition to VMI cadet\n         participants, information was received from veterans of other\n         Confederate units, from Union soldiers, and from a small\n         number number of eyewitnesses who were citizens of the town of\n         New Market at the time of the battle. Some of the responses\n         are very detailed, while others contain little information\n         other than the fact of participation. 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