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Reign Of The Cavalry At VMI Explored In New ‘Epilogue’ Article, Photographs

Reign Of The Cavalry At VMI Explored In New ‘Epilogue’ Article, Photographs
RIDERS from the VMI cavalry unit on the Parade Ground are seen in this 1939 photo. (courtesy Virginia Military Institute Archives)

For 29 years beginning in 1919, Virginia Military Institute was host to a formal cavalry that at one point exceeded 200 horses and involved every cadet, culminating a tradition that began before the Civil War, according to two local scholars writing in the newest “Rockbridge Epilogue.”

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