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CASEY: Treasure trove of Civil War documents finds a home at Virginia Tech
A Massachusetts woman and Hokie whose ancestors founded Radford has donated more than 1,200 Civil War-era letter and ...
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Black general fired for daring to fix military school’s racism
Most graduates will enter the military as commissioned officers. Founded decades before the opening battles of the Civil War, VMI nonetheless has deep ties to the Confederacy. Jackson, the ...
The Boston Globe1mon
VMI board opted out of extending first Black superintendent’s contract
Wins, a retired Army major general, will step down in June from his post as the first Black superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute after ... reverence for the Civil War and Confederacy.
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Virginia Military Institute will not renew first Black superintendent's contract
a Confederate general during the American Civil War and former instructor at the school. Northam, a Democrat who led the state when Wins was appointed to lead VMI, said in a written statement that ...