VMI Alumni Group Requests Assistance

[If anyone has any relation to these New Market Cadets and has a picture of them, please consider making a copy of it and submitting for this worthy project. Below is a copy of a foreworded email requesting assistance. ~ RGW]

I am leading the efforts of a very small group of VMI alumni who for the past two years have been searching for the graves of all of the famed New Market Corps. Of the 290 some individuals comprising the corps in the New Market campaign, we have had remarkable success in locating all but about thirty of the cadets' graves. We have managed to photograph nearly 200 of the graves. A database of our efforts may be found here. And a more embellished display can be found here.

Unfortunately, with myself located in Georgia, another researcher in Texas, and only one of us in Virginia, we are hard pressed to photograph all of the graves, and as you might guess many of these are in Virginia. Also, of the 30 cadet graves remaining to be located, eighteen are likely to be found in Virginia. (Click here to see the list of cadet graves still missing.)

Numerous SCV camps and UDC chapters have helped us in this effort. I have attempted to email a number of other camps to solicit their assistance. Unfortunately, I suspect that many camps do not monitor their email on a regular basis or have changed addresses. So if you could distribute this to the Virginia camps, it would be a big help.

It would be great if a few camps in the Virginia Division would come to our aide. The members of the camps certainly know the local cemeteries and Confederate veterans burial sites better than we.

Respectfully,

Terry Bowers (tbowers68@comcast.net)
VMI '68
Brigadier General E. Porter Alexander Camp #158
Augusta, Georgia