Virginia Military Institute


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In 1839, the Virginia Military Institute became the nation's first state-sponsored military college when the state arsenal in Lexington, Virginia, adopted an additional duty providing a college education to a small group of cadets. This humble experiment became the nation's model for educating the citizen-soldier. Today cadets live a military lifestyle while pursuing an undergraduate degree and may choose to accept a commission in any branch of the armed forces upon graduation. Noted alumni include Pony Express organizer Ben Ficklin (1849), Nobel Peace Prize recipient Gen. George Marshall (1901), Polar explorer Adm. Richard Byrd (1908), U.S. Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark (1921), and actor Dabney Coleman (1957). Numbered among the alumni are over 260 general officers, 13 Rhodes Scholars, and a saint in the Episcopal Church. The Post, as the campus is called, is a National Historic District with its distinctive Gothic Revival architecture surrounding the central parade ground.







Special Report of the Board of Visitors of the Va. Military Institute, September 22, 1865


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Report submitted to Francis H. Pierpoint, Governor of Virginia, discussing the funding needed to rebuild the Virginia Military Institute campus which was destroyed during the Civil War. Also includes synopses of the courses of instruction for the academic school, school of agriculture, and school of civil engineering, and rosters of academic staff, military staff, and Board of Visitors.




Report of the Board of Visitors of the Virginia Military Institute


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Excerpt from Report of the Board of Visitors of the Virginia Military Institute: July 1856 The board of visitors of the Virginia military institute, after a laborious and care ful examination of the various interests of this institution, beg leave to make the following report: The examinations of the several classes of the cadets, which were conducted by the academic board in the presence of the board of visitors, in a thorough and searching man ner, gave full assurance that instruction has been imparted with fidelity and ability. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.