The Use Of The Virginia Military Institute Corps Of Cadets As A Military Unit

Author : Lt.-Cmdr. Michael M. Wallace
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786255969

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The Use Of The Virginia Military Institute Corps Of Cadets As A Military Unit by Lt.-Cmdr. Michael M. Wallace Pdf

During the Civil War, the Confederate government passed legislation creating a national military academy and establishing the rank of Cadet. The national military college was unnecessary because the Confederacy already possessed numerous state military colleges However, the Confederate government failed to properly engage these individual state schools by providing curriculum recommendations or commissioning their graduates. This shortsighted and domineering attitude by the Confederate government ensured that the military colleges failed in their mission to produce a large number of officers for the Confederate army. It was the state governments (especially Virginia and South Carolina), not the Confederacy, that realized the importance that military colleges in the Confederacy and kept them operating with very little Confederate support. Virginia made a conscious decision to keep VMI open, not as a short term “officer candidate school,” but with her four-year military and academic curriculum intact. Supporting the school both militarily and financially, VMI produced the most officers of the southern military colleges for service in the Confederate army. Additionally, the cadets themselves were used as a military unit by the Confederate and state governments numerous times in the war.

Author : John A. Coulter
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623495213

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Cadets on Campus by John A. Coulter Pdf

Since the founding of the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1802, more than eight hundred military schools have existed in this country. The vast majority have closed their doors, been absorbed into other educational institutions, or otherwise faded away, but others soldier on, adapting to changing times and changing educational needs. While many individual institutions have had their histories written or their stories told, to date no single book has attempted to explore the full scope of the military school in American history. Cadets on Campus is the first book to cover the origin, history, and culture of the nation’s military schools—secondary and collegiate—and this breadth of coverage will appeal to historians and alumni alike. Author John Alfred Coulter identifies several key figures who were pivotal to the formation of military education, including Sylvanus Thayer, the “father of West Point,” and Alden Partridge, the founder of the school later known as Norwich University, the first private military school in the country. He also reveals that military schools were present across the nation, despite the conventional wisdom that most military schools, and, indeed, the culture that surrounds them, were limited to the South. Coulter addresses the shuttering of military schools in the era after the Vietnam War and then notes a curious resurgence of interest in military education since the turn of the century.

Author : Keith E. Gibson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439641477

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Virginia Military Institute by Keith E. Gibson Pdf

In 1839, the Virginia Military Institute became the nation's first state-sponsored military college when the state arsenal in Lexington, Virginia, adopted an additional duty providing a college education to a small group of cadets. This humble experiment became the nation's model for educating the citizen-soldier. Today cadets live a military lifestyle while pursuing an undergraduate degree and may choose to accept a commission in any branch of the armed forces upon graduation. Noted alumni include Pony Express organizer Ben Ficklin (1849), Nobel Peace Prize recipient Gen. George Marshall (1901), Polar explorer Adm. Richard Byrd (1908), U.S. Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark (1921), and actor Dabney Coleman (1957). Numbered among the alumni are over 260 general officers, 13 Rhodes Scholars, and a saint in the Episcopal Church. The Post, as the campus is called, is a National Historic District with its distinctive Gothic Revival architecture surrounding the central parade ground.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : WISC:89119182426

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Combined Arms Center (CAC) Research and Publication Index by Anonim Pdf

Index to selected publications of the Combined Arms Center.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : MINN:31951D02747610C

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Professional Journal of the United States Army by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alexander Mui
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439660478

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Army & Navy Academy by Alexander Mui Pdf

Once a staple of American society, military schools are a dying breed, with fewer than thirty remaining. Historically, most military academies existed in the South and along the East Coast. However, Colonel Thomas A. Davis pushed this tradition westward when he founded the San Diego Army and Navy Academy in 1910. Davis pioneered a novel education and leadership training structure for young men that predated the Boy Scouts and JROTC Program. From this single institution sprang the Brown Military Academy, Davis Military Academy, San Diego Military Academy and more. Author Alexander Mui chronicles the endurance of this revered academy through countless trials, wars, economic depressions and the nationwide military school decline until it remained the last traditional military academy west of the Rocky Mountains.

Author : Elaine Marie Alphin
Publisher : Hither Page Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : New Market, Battle of, New Market, Va., 1864
ISBN : 0979833256

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Ghost Cadet by Elaine Marie Alphin Pdf

Twelve-year-old Benjy, in Virginia visiting his grandmother, meets the ghost of a Virginia Military Institute cadet who was killed in the Battle of New Market in 1864 and helps him recover his family's treasured gold watch.

Author : Jennings C. Wise
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Military cadets
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036864390

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The Military History of the Virginia Military Institute from 1839 to 1865 by Jennings C. Wise Pdf

Author : G. Kurt Piehler
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 1921 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781506310817

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Encyclopedia of Military Science by G. Kurt Piehler Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Military Science provides a comprehensive, ready-reference on the organization, traditions, training, purpose, and functions of today’s military. Entries in this four-volume work include coverage of the duties, responsibilities, and authority of military personnel and an understanding of strategies and tactics of the modern military and how they interface with political, social, legal, economic, and technological factors. A large component is devoted to issues of leadership, group dynamics, motivation, problem-solving, and decision making in the military context. Finally, this work also covers recent American military history since the end of the Cold War with a special emphasis on peacekeeping and peacemaking operations, the First Persian Gulf War, the events surrounding 9/11, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and how the military has been changing in relation to these events.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009868576

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Author : Jim Hargan
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-19
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781581579475

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Explorer's Guide The Shenandoah Valley & Mountains of the Virginias: Includes Virginia's Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountains & West Virginia's Alleghenies & New River Region by Jim Hargan Pdf

A lively, comprehensive guide to the southern Appalachians, from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains to the Monongahela National Forest of West Virginia. With visitation levels that rival Orlando and New York City, the southern Appalachians draw a huge array of weekenders, adventurers, and long-term visitors. This book offers historical insight, outdoor adventure, and all the information most travelers need to plan and enjoy their journey. This guide also serves as an insider's handbook to the nine national parks, offering active travelers the best access points and trailheads for kayaking, biking, and hiking excursions. In addition, this comprehensive guide to the region includes opinionated listings of inns, B&Bs, hotels, and vacation cabins; hundreds of dining reviews, from barbecue to four-star cuisine; up-to-date maps; an alphabetical "What's Where" subject guide to aid in trip planning; and handy icons that point out family-friendly establishments, wheelchair access, places of special value, and lodgings that accept pets.

Author : James Lee Conrad
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811768405

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The Young Lions by James Lee Conrad Pdf

Focusing on the South’s four major military colleges—the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), the South Carolina Military Academy (later The Citadel), the Georgia Military Institute, and the University of Alabama—The Young Lions is the story of young Confederate military cadets at war. From the opening of VMI in 1839 through the struggles of all the schools to remain open during the war, the death of Stonewall Jackson (a VMI professor), and the Pyrrhic victory of the Battle of New Market to the burning of the University of Alabama in 1865, this book reveals the everyday dramatic actions of cadets on battlefield and beyond.

Author : Robert P. Broadwater
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440830587

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Civil War Special Forces by Robert P. Broadwater Pdf

This timely addition to Civil War history shares the stories of 25 unique military organizations, showing how past and future collided in the first modern war. The Civil War, of course, pitted North against South. It also pitted ancient ways of war against new, technology-inspired weaponry and tactics. In surveying the war's elite fighting units, this work covers both. The book showcases novel weapons and unorthodox strategies, including machine gunners, rocket battalions, chemical corps, the Union balloon corps, and the Confederate submarine service, all of which harnessed new technologies and were forerunners of the modern military. Chapters also cover archaic special forces, such as lancers and pikers, that had their last hurrah during this transformational conflict. Readers will also meet the fighting youth of the North Carolina Junior Reserves, the "Graybeards" of North Carolina, and the female combatants of the Nancy Harts Militia of Georgia. Going where few other studies have gone, the book fills a gap in existing Civil War literature and brings to life the stories of many of the most extraordinary units that ever served in an American army. The tales it tells will prove fascinating to Civil War and weapons buffs and to general readers alike.

Author : Francis Henney Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:25269137

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The Inner Life of the V. M. I. Cadet by Francis Henney Smith Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Military research
ISBN : UOM:39015081877782

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Technical Report by Anonim Pdf