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New Market
Virginia, United States
New Market, town, Shenandoah county, northwestern Virginia, U.S., in the Shenandoah Valley. Laid out in 1784 and early known as Crossroads, it was incorporated in 1796 and renamed for the famous English horseracing town. This small community gained a place in American Civil War history when Confederate General John C. Breckinridge, in desperation, ordered the 257 cadets of the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington to join the fight in the hills to the north with about 4,000 other soldiers against the 6,000 Union army troops of General Franz Sigel. The boy-cadets, under General Scott Shipp, marched 80 miles (129 km) ...(100 of 186 words)