and member of the VMI Board of Visitors; in that position he promoted and worked actively for the reconstruction. Scott Shipp, who led cadets at New Market, became the school's second superintendent in 1890.
In 1903, a statue sculpted by Moses Ezekiel, a VMI cadet who had fought and was wounded at New Market, called Virginia Mourning Her Dead, was dedicated. Six of the ten fallen cadets are now buried on VMI grounds behind the statue. In 1912, another statue by Ezekiel, a relica statue of General Jackson, was also donated to the VMI.
=== World War II ===
VMI produced many of America's commanders in World War II. The most important of these was George C. Marshall (class of 1901), the top U.S. Army general during the war. Marshall was the Army's first five-star general and the only career military officer ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Winston Churchill dubbed Marshall the "Architect of Victory" and "the noblest Roman of them all". The Deputy Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army during the war was also a VMI …
