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VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE (Click on an image to see the actual notecard size)
The Barracks
Lexington, Virginia
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The Barracks was designed by New York architect Alexander Jackson Davis in 1850 and construction was begun the same year by Philadelphia contractor Morris, Tasker & Morris. The first part of the planned structure, completed in September 1851, included the south side with towers at each end, from which the east and west wings extended at right angles. In 1864 VMI was shelled and burned by Union troops, leaving only the thick stone and brick walls of the Barracks standing. It has been rebuilt, remodeled and extended several times without changing the exterior appearance of the original structure. By 1923 Davis’ plan was completed and the east and west wings had been extended to join a north wing. A new section to the left of the center tower was opened in 1949. The Barracks, which dominates the 12-acre parade ground, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966.

The statue of Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson depicts him as he surveyed the field at Chancellorsville before his death in 1863. It is the work of Sir Moses Ezekiel, 1866 VMI graduate and member of the Corps of Cadets which fought at New Market. Guns of the Rockbridge Battery, known to generations of cadets as “Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John,” were cast in 1848 and used by Jackson in cadet artillery training.

With 23 cadets and two instructors, the nation’s first state-supported military college opened its doors on November 11, 1839, on the site of the Lexington Arsenal, one of three in Virginia at the time. Today’s Corps of Cadets includes approximately 1,300 candidates for the bachelor’s degree in sciences, engineering, and the humanities. Studies of a full college curriculum are combined with a daily regime of military training and discipline, with emphasis placed on qualities of honesty, integrity and responsibility.

Text © 1996 Dianne Harrah, Drawing © 1996 Bill Harrah.

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