During the Civil War, VMI was important to the Confederate cause, training generals and officers to defend the slave-holding south. But in the movie, some of the young cadets express doubts about ...

Virginia Military Institute's collection of early American repeating firearms, Civil War weapons and U.S. martial arms showcases how American ingenuity influenced firearm development around the world.

Youngkin directs VMI to accept controversial Confederate statue. Arlington Cemetery’s Confederate memorial would go to VMI’s Civil War museum at New Market Battlefield under plans agreed to by ...

Col. Keith Gibson, executive director of the VMI Museum, gave the Civil War veteran’s descendant a tour. VMI’s first superintendent, Francis H. Smith, had been a lifelong friend of Henry du ...

There are some former VMI cadets working behind the scenes. "I've been studying it for a long time, so I knew which direction I wanted to go," said Kevin Hershberger VMI class of 1995.

The century-old statue will be relocated to New Market, where cadets from Virginia Military Institute fought and died during the Civil War.

Dominion’s Tom Farrell, a writer and producer of “Field of Lost Shoes,” hopes to have the debut of the Civil War film in Richmond.

The New Market Medal—named for a Civil War battle in which VMI cadets fought on the Confederate side—has been awarded to 15 individuals since 1962. Most recipients are VMI graduates, and they include ...

Gabriel Colvin Wharton, 1824-1906, was born in Culpeper County and was educated at Virginia Military Institute. During the Civil War he fought for the Confederacy and in 1863 rose to the rank of ...

VMI was founded in 1839 in Lexington, a historic town in western Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. ... There was an ”outdated” reverence for the Civil War and Confederacy.