One last glance back at our week in the Shenandoah Valley where Richard Torovsky, my former Vietnam associate (and a Citadel graduate who is also Mr. Boy’s godfather), is president of the New Market Rotary Club, which meets Wednesdays here. RT also is co-owner of the Reveille Vineyard, at nearby Quicksburg, which celebrated its first marketable crop this year. Yay.
New Market’s battlefield park and museum are worth anybody’s visit, or just explore it on the Web. The story of the young VMI cadets who marched 80 miles in three days to help the Confederate Army defeat the invading Yankees is inspiring enough.
I was somewhat put out to discover the museum’s purported cataloguing of all Confederate veterans does not include my paternal great grandfather, Pvt. Edward Parker Stanley of the 13th Mississippi Infantry Regiment. It was part of Griffin’s/Barksdale’s/Humphreys’ Mississippi Brigade, which was in Stonewall Jackson’s “foot cavalry” in 1862. But otherwise the museum is a stirring experience.
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