Virginia Military Institute - Bomb Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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m ' niiiMi ■ : :. ■ «»- .. - •- ■■4 -H(JS. I??Q In this old view of the south side of the barracks, one is immediately impressed with the absence of the parapet and the modern gymna- sium. Closer examination will re- veal chimneys in every tower and an exterior balcony between the two main towers. L asm Wall This building was dedicated in 1897. The portion to the left of the arch is Jackson Memorial Hall as it appeared in that year. The cadets were quartered in the bar- racks to the right of the arch. By 1917 the size of the corps neces- sitated larger accommodations, and the entire structure was converted into barracks. Replacing the mess hall, which was burned in 1905, this building was erected on the site of the one which served the corps in 1839. It was enlarged to some extent in 1918 and again in 1919. The present Crozet Hall replaced it in 1934. P 0L0(5UE -w.

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V.M.I. ' S HUNDIJEDTH (iLONOUS y[AI! ' . During the Civil War General D. H. Hunter took the town of Lexington and burned the Institute in 1864, leaving it in ruins. At the time this picture was taken reconstruction had begun, and the corps was quartered in cabins like the one to the right of the barracks as well as in that portion of the barracks which was not injured in Hunter ' s Raid. wins Of unm. 1X60-1367 Xi ' . 1 -- w- • •! ri III ( I I n n 1 , i ii ii i I it II I - ' 13

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9 3 9 T he purpose of this volume is to show, pictorially and verhally, the progress of the Virginia Mili- tary Institute throughout her one hundred years of glorious exist- ence, and to serve as an alhum of the hfe within her wahs today. If the reader sees in it a summary of impressive progress, and if, in years to come, the alumnus may delve in it and thrill at the recollection of memorahle events, then it wih have fulfihed its purpose.