Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1902-04-11
The Virginia Military Institute
Catalogue of 19O1-'O2.

THE GAZETTE acknowledges the
receipt of the catalogue of tn:
Virginia Military Institute fol
1901-1902. 1t is handsome
publication, on good paper; well
bound and embellished with q
number of half-tone engravings Of
scenery in and about the building
StOnewall Jackson Memorial build
ing is the frontispiece, followed
by the Virginia Military Institute,
Parade Ground and Officers Quar-
tiers, Cadet Barracks, Cadet Bat
terry and Encampment.
There are PAL Cadets in atten-
dance this year representing 25
States, as follows: Virginia, 122
Texas, 10; North Carolina, 13;
Kentucky and Tennessee, each Q;
District of Columbia and West
Virginia, each 8; Mississippi, Z;
Alabama, Maryland and Pennsyl-
vania, each 6; Illinois, 4; Florida,
Missouri, Montana and New York,
each 3; Arkansas, Georgia and
Louisiana, each 2; and one each from
California, Colorado, Kansas. New
Jersey, Ohio and Washington.
There is in the catalogue compne-
henSive roster of the graduates of
the Institute since 1889, giving
the occupation, date of gradu-
alton, the State they came from,
and whether living or dead. Many
of these men became distinguished
in professional life and in the
Civil War.
tenth of the Confederate
armies were commanded by the
eleves of this school, embrace
ing three major-generals, thirty
brigadier-generals, sixty colonies,
fifty Observation-Disclosures, thirty
majors, one hundred and twenty
five captains, over two hundred
lieutenants, and the results of the
battles, numbering one hundred
and twenty-five of these among
the killed, in addition to a large
mum Der of manned and wounded,
show that the eleves of the Insti-
tute met the call of their country
with an earnestness of devotion
which places them in most honor
able distinction for their heroic
defense of what they believed TO
be right.
The names of Rodes, Malone,
Garland, Munford, Humes, Lane
Weston. Titus, Williams, Terrill,
Echols, McCausland, the Pattons,
Crutchfeld, Cutshaw, Payne, Carter
Mincher, Chenowith, Latimer, the
Aliens, Bolts, Cummings, Lindsay
Walker, James S. Walker, Terry,
Duke, Wharton, w. w. Gordon,
the Mayos, Neff, Pendleton. Stuart,
Strange, Marshall, Penn, Lakeland,
Lee, Massie, Florence, Waite
Taylor, Truehart, the Breckin-
ridges, Carpenter, the Oteys, and
n long line of others of equal fame,
have rendered memorable for all
time the annals of the Virginia
Military Institute.
Intimately associated with the
name and fame of Jackson is the
Virginia Military Institute. On
a Sunday morning in April, 1861,
after a fervent prayer to Almighty |
God by the Rev. W. S. White, of
Lexington, the pastor of the
church in which Jackson was
deacon, as the old clock in the bar
racks tower struck twelve, the hour
in order to move, Jack
son gave the command, Column
forward, march !" At the word
the gallant battalion of cadets,
destined to be soon scattered
throughout the southern land as
officers and drill-masters, busily
engaged in molding the rude
elements of war into shape, entered
upon the career of glory and
danger which was to crown their
leaders with imperishable renown
and establish for the Institute a
claim to the gratitude of the
State and of the whole South.
The generous liberality of the
State of Virginia in founding and
nurturing this great school of
science and of arms was richly