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Call Out the Cadets: The Battle of New Market, May 15, 1864 (Sarah Kay Bierle - CWC) emancipation We watch it unfoldCall Out the Cadets: The Battle of New Market, May 15, 1864 (Emerging Civil War Series by Sarah Kay Bierle "May God forgive me for the order," Confederate Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge remarked as he ordered young cadets from Virginia Military Institute into the battle lines at New Market, just days after calling them from their academic studies to assist in a crucial defense. Virginia's Shenandoah Valley had seen years of fighting. In the spring of