Hey Virginia: Virginia Museum of the Civil War

Virginia played a pivotal role in the civil war, and perhaps no other event personifies this than The Battle of New Market. In the spring of 1864, a makeshift confederate army featuring a rag tag battalion of VMI cadets, was called into action, and ultimately chased the union soldiers out of the Shenandoah Valley. It’s a dramatic page in Virginia’s History. To learn more about The Battle of New Market, look no further than the ‘Virginia Museum of the Civil War”. The war between the Grey and the Blue is represented and preserved in paintings, sculptures, real war armaments and so much more at this VMI owned facility in New Market. From self guided battlefield tours to reenactments, you are sure to experience how powerful this time in American history was.