Tag Archives: Moses J. Ezekiel

Burying Their Friends: The VMI Cadets at New Market on May 17, 1864

Posted on May 20, 2021 by Sarah Kay Bierle

It is quiet. The whispering hour of sunset fading into twilight. The traffic hums along on the adjacent Valley Pike, but the graveyard is silent. The dead I’ve come to remember aren’t actually here. Their bodies rest elsewhere—four in the … Continue reading →

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Moving Memory: Virginia Military Institute’s Stonewall Jackson Statue

Posted on December 8, 2020 by Sarah Kay Bierle

The boy who became the sculptor stood guard over the dead general’s casket. We don’t know if he ever saw him alive, though it is possible their paths may have crossed on a spring day in Richmond when the Civil … Continue reading →

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Lydie Clinedinst & Moses Ezekiel: A Devoted Friendship Begun at New Market

Posted on May 18, 2019 by Sarah Kay Bierle

Tears blurred the candlelit scene. Seventeen-year-old Thomas Garland Jefferson struggled for his final breaths. Former roommate and battlefield comrade—Moses Ezekiel—supported the dying cadet’s body while nearby a young civilian woman—Eliza Clinedinst—held a candle. Eliza’s sister, Anna, her mother, and the … Continue reading →

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