Tag Archives: Thomas Garland Jefferson

Cadet Thomas G. Jefferson: Saving a Life on New Market Battlefield

Posted on May 15, 2022 by Sarah Kay Bierle

Seventeen-year-old Thomas Garland Jefferson died of a wound suffered at the battle of New Market. Shot in the lungs on May 15, 1864, the Virginia Military Institute cadet lingered for hours, dying a couple of days later. Jefferson’s story has … Continue reading →

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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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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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