Summary:
Confederate Major H. M. Bell, quartermaster at Staunton, reports to General W. H. Richardson on the part played by the VMI cadets in May, 1864, fighting at New Market.

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Gen. W. H. RICHARDSON,
Adjutant-Gen.:

STAUNTON,

May 16, 1864.

The Corps of Cadets were with Gen. Breckinridge in the fight with Sigel yesterday at New Market and behaved splendidly. They lost 5 killed and 15 wounded, to wit: Cadets Cabell, Jones, Crockett, McDowell, and Stanard, killed; and Cadets Garrett, Stuart, Hill, Randolph, Johnston, Dillard, Berkeley, Wise, Triplett, Marshall, Shriver, Watson, Read, Turner, and Whitson, wounded.

H. M. BELL,
Maj. and Quartermaster.

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Bibliographic Information : Letter Reproduced from The War of The Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Volume 51, Serial No. 108, Pages 938, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.