The Battle Of New Market: 150th Anniversary
VMI will commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Battle of New Market May 15, continuing a long tradition of honoring the cadets who fought in the battle.
New Market Battlefield
Still pics and HD video of:
Virginia Museum of the Civil War
Bushong Farm
New Market Battlefiled
All located just west of New Market, Virginia
New Market Battlefield Historic Park
Re-enacting Retro: New Market... A Field of Honor Battlefield Film
Re-enacting Retro - This is a very well-done, classic film produced for the Hall of Valor Museum on the New Market, Virginia Battlefield - owned and maintained by Virginia Military Institute. AKA The Dancing Flag movie - it was produced circa 1966 at VMI and on the original battlefield. Released here on the 154th anniversary of the battle of New Market.
We hope you enjoy. This is another in a series of postings on our YouTube channel of a cool New series of Old videos -- featured only on here -- taken from a personal collection of re-enacting films and videos from the 1980s that can't be found anywhere else, or else we've tried to find them for nostalgia's sake, but did our own digging and presenting the results of our treasure hunt here. Some are taken from VHS originals or DVD transfers from those VHS copies. Originals were in Standard Def or Videotaped off of TV when they first aired. Some shot professionally and others by individuals with portable home video cameras on their shoulders.
Some Classic Re-enacting videos are already searchable on YouTube, but we wanted to start a new series of some rarely or never before seen classics that either only aired once or where short lived and available only to a select few at the time. We hope you enjoy. These programs presented in this RE-ENACTING RETRO series are presented for the enjoyment of all and we don't claim them for ourselves.
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Civil War Uniforms of Blue & Grey - The Evolution Volume 2:
Civil War Uniforms of Blue & Grey - The Evolution Volume 1:
Battles For Atlanta Pt. 2 Kennesaw Mountain”:
400 Evolution of the United States Army Uniform:
Civil War - 1861 Col. Gilham's Confederate Musket Drill HD:
Lt. Robert T. Waugh - 1944 Medal Of Honor Moment:
Civil War - 1862 U.S. Army Musket Drill HD:
Medal of Honor Moment - Sergeant York:
Re-enactment of The Battle Of New Market, Virginia
In the spring of 1864, Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant set in motion a grand strategy designed to press the Confederacy into submission. My primary mission, reasoned Grant, is to ... bring pressure to bear on the Confederacy so no longer could it take advantage of interior lines. Control of the strategically important and agriculturally rich Shenandoah Valley was a key element in General Grant's plans. While he confronted General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in the eastern part of the state, Grant ordered Major General Franz Sigel's army of 10,000 to secure the Valley and threaten Lee's flank, starting the Valley Campaigns of 1864.
Aaron's Civil War Travels - The Battle of New Market Virginia
A quick overview of the Battle of New Market Virginia.
Battle of New Market
via YouTube Capture
150th Anniversary of the Battle of New Market, Virginia. Union infantry and cavalry hold line as Confederate infantry advance quickly into their position.
Taken on May 18, 2014.
New Market tourist information center offers starting point for Shenandoah Valley visitors
The New Market Battlefield State Historic park and Virginia Museum of the Civil War is also now an official Virginia tourism information center for the Shenandoah Valley.
New Market Battlefield Reenactment 09
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Shenandoah County Civil War Virginia
- Discover the Shenandoah County Civil War story by visiting such sites as the Virginia Museum of the Civil War; New Market Battlefield and the Bushong Farm. Learn about the Field of Lost Shoes and the Virginia Military Institute cadets who fought so bravely here in 1864. Include Hupp's Hill Civil War Park and learn about the Battle of Cedar Creek, another 1864 battle. Battle reenactments, historic walking tours, the Edinburg Mill, Civil War Trails markers, and more await you in Shenandoah County; discover our Civil War story.
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Shenandoah County Tourism
600 N Main St #101
Woodstock VA 22664
(540) 459-6227
Copy of Battle Of New Market-Part 1
The Battle of New Market reenactment in north-west Virginia,USA This is the American Civil War if you didnt know. Oh and sorry for all the movement i couldnt find a good spot to film :D
CIVIL WAR TIMES: THE BATTLE OF NEW MARKET
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Virginia Museum of the Civil War
Today we learn more about the Civil War. First we visit the Turner Ashby Monument in Harrisonburg, VA then we visit the Virginia Museum of the Civil War and the New Market Battlefield in New Market, VA.
US CIVIL WAR Reenactors, Music, Museum, Mementos in Virginia
(Watch in FULL screen). Visit to the Civil War battlefield in Virginia in the legendary Shenandoah Valley. The three-hundred acre New Market Battlefield State Historical Park, the Virginia Museum of the Civil War, and the 19th Century Bushong Farm, commemorate a unique moment in American history--- when college boys, Cadets from VMI, engaged in pitched battle and helped win a victory for the Confederate Army. In the end, however, the Union was preserved after all battles ended.
Yearly on 19-20 May you can see the Battle New Market Reenactment - An annual Anniversary Reenactment of the Battle fought on May 15, 1864. Emphasis is on the role of the Virginia Military Institute Cadets in the battle. Combat scenarios each day, other living history presentations throughout the weekend.
CIVIL WAR TIMES: THE BATTLE OF NEW MARKET
The Battle of New Market. We took some videos of what we did there to bost th # of Yanks! Come on Yanks us Rebs need somthing to shoot at!! But it was alot of fun anyway!
Unflinching Heroism: The United States Colored Troops at New Market Heights
The first 12 Congressional Medals of Honor awarded to African American soldiers were earned at a battle fought near Richmond. Some were free men fighting to prove that African Americans were worthy of full citizenship – others were former slaves fighting to free their enslaved kindred. Author Jimmy Price disusses these men who struck a blow for freedom.
Battle of New Market - Reenactment 2010
The Battle of New Market was fought on May 15, 1864, in Virginia during the Valley Campaigns of 1864 in the American Civil War. A makeshift Confederate army of 4,100 men, which included cadets from the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), forced Union Major General Franz Sigel and his army out of the Shenandoah Valley. The cadets were integral to the Confederate victory at New Market.
Battle of New Market - Reenactment (5/15/2010)
VMI Cadets at New Market 2011-05-14
VMI Cadets marching across the field and through Bushong Farm in to battle during the New Market Civil War reenactment on May 14th, 2011. The cadets marched 81 miles in 4 days from Virginia Military Institute in Lexington to New Market in full uniform. This is done in honor and remembrance of the original 257 Cadets that did the same exact march in 1864 to join Confederate General Breckenridge's forces in stopping Sigel's advance in the Shenandoah Valley.
Moscow WWII Victory Museum - Largest Collection of WWII military equipment
Walk through the military equipment collection at the Victory Museum in Moscow on June 12, The Day of Russia, with numerous tanks, airplanes, boats and artillery, as well as many outdoor exhibits. Equipment includes European, American and Russian equipment.
Music in the background is popular Russian music from the time of WWII.
The museum is located at Park Pobedy, or Victory Park in Moscow and includes a large indoor display, as well.
The struggle against Germany in WWII was the bloodiest in Soviet Union history. An estimated 15 million civilians died, 11 million soldiers, and a 3-year blockade of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) starved a million people. The Soviet Union bore the brunt of German aggression. Russian soldiers held on and Moscow and St. Petersburg never fell. Sixty percent of households lost someone in the war. Even 80 years later the struggle is remembered solemnly as the great patriotic war for survival.
The Germans suffered three-quarters of their wartime losses fighting the Red Army.
The Victory Museum in Moscow is the largest museum of military history in the Russian Federation. The museum hosts the largest collection of World War II military equipment in Europe.
BATTLE OF WINCHESTER AT NEW MARKET BATTLEFIELD MAY 19, 2012.mp4
The 148th Anniversary of the Battle of Winchester re-enacted on the New Market Battlefield May 19, 2012. This was a Confederate victory. The Union troops advance from the left and the Confederate troops advance from the right. Most of the action was quite a distance from us but I think you can make out what is going on.