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The two sources are very similar. The movie and newspaper both explain how mysterious General Sigel's movements were, and how he refused advice from almost everyone.

Also, there is an emphasis on how many troops were lost in the Battle of New Market. Many Confederate soldiers were killed in the battle, which is emphasized especially in the movie and partially in the article. Then, both show and explain the retreat by incompetent General Sigel.

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Civil War Harper's Weekly, May 28, 1864

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House.-May 11 The Senate amendments to the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation Bill were resumed. That providing for the appointment by the President of twenty five consular pupils was agreed to; and that authorizing the raising of the grade of our representative in Belgium to that of a full minister was non-concurred in.-The joint resolution to drop from the army rolls all unemployed general officers was taken up, and after some discussion, aria the offering and rejection of a few amendments, was adopted.-The Senate's amendments to the Postal Money Order System bill were concurred in. -- May 12. The Speaker presented the resolution of the New York Chamber of Commerce, commendatory of Mr. Collins's scheme for a line of telegraph between Europe and the United States, via Siberia and Behring's Straits.-The bill to give soldiers and sailors homesteads on the confiscated estates of rebels was taken up and passed.-The House then resumed the consideration of the bill declaring the Camden and Atlantic and the Raritan and Delaware Bay railroads national postal and military routes. After an extended discussion a substitute for the bill was passed. This substitute provides, in effect, that every railway company in the United States whose road is operated by steam is authorized to carry over said road all freight, mails, passengers, Government supplies, and troops from one State to another, and receive compensation therefor.--- May 13. Mr. Washburne read a dispatch, dated at the head-quarters of General Grant, detailing the brilliant successes of the Army of the Potomac. Then the Speaker read General Ingalls's telegram to Senator Nesmith. These documents were greeted with great cheering. A bill was passed to punish counterfeiting of the national coins. A resolution was reported from the Committee on Elections declaring that Mr. Yeaman is entitled to the seat for the Second Kentucky District, and that Mr. M'Henry, the contestant, is not. A bill was reported by Mr. Pendleton, from the Ways and Means Committee, for the relief of the Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company of New York, which gave rise to a long and somewhat personal debate. The object of the bill is to instruct the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Treasury notes bearing the same numbers as were borne by certain other notes, the property of the aforesaid company, which were lost at sea. The bill was finally passed, and the House adjourned till Monday.-May 16. Captain Reynolds's report on the exploration of the Yellowstone River was ordered to be printed. The credentials of Mr. A. A. C. Rogers, member elect from the Second District of Arkansas, were presented and referred to the Committee on Elections.-Resolutions calling for the proceedings on the trials of Robert Taylor, of Tennessee, and Commodore Wilkes were agreed to. Also a resolution requesting the Secretary of War to inform the House by what authority Brigadier-General J. M. Hubbell, Military Commandant of the City of Natchez, issued an order which forbid contrabands remaining in the City of Natchez, unless employed by some responsible white parson, and forbidding any contraband from hiring or occupying any house in that city, under which regulation hundreds of the wives and children of soldiers in the field had been turned out of their homes.-A bill granting fifty million acres of land in aid of the construction of a railroad and telegraph by the northern route to the Pacific was passed. Also a bill to continue the printing of the debates in Congress.----May 17, The House acted on the report of the Conference Committee on the amendments to the Navy Appropriation bill.-Mr. Dawes called up the resolutions of the Committee on Elections, declaring that Messrs. Segur and Chandler are not entitled to seats in this Congress from the First and Second Districts of Virginia. The two cases being similar, the House considered them together, and by a vote of 93 against 23 adopted the resolution that neither of the contestants were entitled to seats.

On Wednesday, March 9, Ulysses S. Grant received his commission as Lieutenant-General of the Army. Hither-to he had been known as the great General of the West-the hero of Fort Donelson , , Vicksburg, and Chattanooga - the hero of wingless victory. The South declared him conqueror in virtue of his blunders-at the North his blunders were glorified; the South said all his strategy consisted in outnumbering the enemy-the North rejoiced that sufficient strategy had been developed in any of its generals to make even numbers available: and in a fortunate moment Congress and the President made him Lieutenant-General. Then the Confederacy professed itself jubilant over the prospect of Grant's having to meet Lee-the Unionists, on the other hand, contemplated with considerable satisfaction the prospect of Lee's having to meet Grant. Nor did the Lieutenant-General shrink from that conflict, but from the moment of receiving his commission transferred his personal presence to the Army of the Potomac, leaving as his vicegerent to carry out the Western campaign. During the season unfavorable for active operations he promptly reinforced and judiciously reorganized 's army, and formed his plans for the most momentous campaign in American history.

Warren, Sedgwick, and Hancock were made the corps commanders of Meade's army, with subordinate officers not only carefully selected but wisely distributed, as that the entire Army of the Potomac became as harmonious as it was efficient : to was given a separate army Corps ; and at Fortress Monroe was reinforced by the Tenth Corps from Charleston under Gillmore, and the Eighteenth from the West tinder "Baldy" Smith.

On Wednesday, May 4, just eight weeks from the day Grant received his commission, his two grand columns were ready to move-the one well in hand on the north bank of the Rapidan, seventy miles north of Richmond, and the other at Fortress Monroe, one day's sail from Richmond on the James.

Our army at Culpepper broke camp on Tuesday, May 3, and made preparations to advance with six days' rations in light marching order. In the afternoon Gregg's and Wilson's cavalry opened the way to Germania and Ely's

Fords-the former twelve and the latter eighteen miles from Culpepper-and at midnight Hancock's corps left camp on the road to , and Warren, closely followed by Sedgwick, on the road to Germanna. Wednesday morning, preceded by the cavalry, who drive in the enemy's pickets and then proceed to reconnoitre the roads toward Fredericksburg and southward, Hancock and Warren commence the crossing of the Rapidan, the points of their arrival on the south bank being six miles apart. At nightfall the whole army, with the exception of Burnside's corps, is across; Hancock having his head-quarters at Chancellorsville , his line extending back to the river; and Warren at Wilderness Tavern, with Sedgwick's corps in his rear stretching back to Germanna Ford. The position thus taken by the Federal army flanked the enemy on the east ; Grant's reason for turning this flank rather than the other being, that on this side he would be able at the various stages of his progress to keep open his communications by water.

THE BATTLES IN THE WILDERNESS.

There is good evidence that Grant's movement across the Rapidan surprised General Lee . Unless the rebel army can, with an almost marvelous rapidity of motion, get into a position on the front and southward of Meade's army, the latter will inevitably reach its rear, and compel Lee to fight a battle with his communications cut off-a battle in which, if he is beaten, the disaster is irretrievable and decisive of the campaign. Lee succeeded in gaining this position, and in so doing compelled General Grant to fight him at a disadvantage. For the position held by Grant on Thursday morning was most unfavorable for an engagement. The ground was rolling and covered with dense thickets of dwarf pines and chaparral, as that artillery would have to be dispensed with on either side. A great portion of the Federal army had not yet come up so as to be immediately available; Burnside was away, and the trains of supplies were only partly across the river. Lee had no impediment except the nature of the ground, which was common to both armies, and the absence of Longstreet 's corps. He was familiar with the field; which gave him the all important advantage of being able to move by the shortest and easiest routes, and thus by rapidity of movement be able always to anticipate attack, keeping Grant on the defensive. Lee made the most of this advantage.

The order of the day for Thursday was to have been for Hancock to march down southwesterly from Chancellorsville to Shady Grove, to connect on Warren's left, who was also to advance to Parker's Store, five miles toward Mine Run: Sedgwick was to move up and take Warren's abandoned position. This would have given Grant a line running almost directly north and south from Germanna Ford to within a short distance of Spottsylvania Court House, the occupation of which would have followed, giving Grant a favorable position commanding the direct route to Richmond. But this plan was only partially carried out, on account of the presence of the enemy on the right centre, reported after the march had commenced Warren had reached a position near Parker's Store, when the menaced attack on his right led to an order recalling Hancock to fill the gap between him and Warren's left.

The engagement lasts two hours: Hays is killed, and Webb is wounded; but reinforcements come up from Warren; Sedgwick presses on the right ; and an advance is made along the whole line, before which the Confederates are driven back.

The gap which yesterday intervened between Hancock and Warren is still open, General Burnside who was to have filled it being still held in reserve, probably to guard the trains in the event of a Confederate success on the right. Lee, after the attack on Grant's right has been repulsed, concentrates his entire force against this point, and Hancock is in danger of being surrounded. Colonel Frank's brigade (of Barlow's division) holding the extreme left is borne back, and the whole line retires to its entrenchments. The greater portion of Burnside's corps is brought up to a position between Warren and Hancock, and the latter is drawn up nearer to Warren.

LEE'S CHANGE OF POSITION.

At ten o'clock Saturday night Longstreet left the old field, and Hancock just an hour after ; and the two armies were on a race, by roads nearly parallel, to the Court House. The Confederate army having the start and the interior route, came out ahead. Early the next day the

Federal advance was within two and one half miles of the Court House when Robinson's Division, with Bartlett's Brigade on the right, attacked Longstreet, under the mistaken notion that they were moving against cavalry. This force was terribly broken up. The First Michigan, out of one hundred men, brought off only twenty-four after a fifteen minutes' fight. Crawford's and (the late) Wadsworth's divisions come up, and the fighting was maintained, Rittenhouse's battery supporting the Federal attack, until noon, when an open space was gained. General Robinson was wounded.

Sunday evening the Confederates were again attacked by Crawford's and Getty's divisions; one line of breastworks was carried, and a hundred prisoners taken. Although there was no general battle, the Federal loss was about fifteen hundred.

Monday the rations of the soldiers being exhausted, they were replenished from the trains, and the troops were allowed to rest during the day. A change was made in the Federal line-Hancock being transferred to the right, and Sedgwick to the left. Early in the afternoon an attack was made, though unsuccessful, on Wilcox's Division (Ninth Corps), as Burnside's forces were engaged in skirmishing on the extreme left. Late in the day Grant ordered an advance, and Hancock threw Barlow, Birney, Gibbon, and Carrel over a branch of the Po, and moved against the enemy's left.

Early in the day a furious cannonade was opened on the enemy's position preparatory to a general attack, which had been ordered to be made along the line, but especially at the centre. For this purpose Birney, Gibbon, and Mott were withdrawn from the advanced position on the right, which was new held by Barlow alone. Wadsworth's and Robinson's divisions led the attack on the centre through the woods, the enemy shelling the latter from his intrenchments. Pressing up close to the breast works an attempt was made to carry the rifle pits, but in vain. Gibbon and Carroll, participating in this attack, suffered seriously, the latter losing 800 men. General Rice was killed here.

The enemy, taking advantage of Barlow's isolated position, attacked him in great force and drove him back; but assistance came from the east side of the river and he was brought over.

In the evening Grant attacked again, preceding the assault as before by a heavy cannonade. Upton's brigade of Wright's corps led in this attack, accompanied by Russell's, moving forward without firing, under a murderous fire themselves, sealing the enemy's works and capturing several hundred of the enemy and three guns. Too far in the advance, Upton was forced to fall back. The assault thus begun continued until night closed on results as indecisive as those already gained. Robinson's division lost over 2500 men.

Wednesday morning opened quietly; and the Lieutenant-General sent his first dispatch. He says:

"We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result to this time is much in our favor. Our losses have been heavy as well as those of the enemy. I think the loss of the enemy must be greater. We have taken over 5000 prisoners in battle, while he has taken from us but few except stragglers. I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer."

Toward noon our line was advanced, and there was considerable skirmishing. It is reported that Lee asked a truce for forty-eight hours to bury his dead and take care of his wounded. Grant refused, and said that he himself would take all possible care of the dead and wounded of both sides within his lines.

During Wednesday night Hancock moved around to a position between Wright and Burnside, and the dawn of Thursday found his men face to face with Major-General E. Johnston's division. One charge and the works were gained and the entire division captured. Johnston confirmed the report that Longstreet was severely wounded.

Toward noon the whole line was engaged, Burnside and Hancock on the left, Wright and Warren on the right. General Grant penned the following dispatch at the close of the day :

The eighth day of battle closes, leaving between three and four thousand prisoners in our hands for the day's work, including two General officers, and over thirty pieces of artillery. The enemy are obstinate, and seem to have found the last ditch. We have lost no organization, not even a company, while we have destroyed and captured one division (Johnston's), one brigade (Dobbs's), and one regiment entire of the enemy."

General Meade at the same time issued the following address to his soldiers:

" SOLDIERS !-The moment has arrived when your Commanding-General feels authorized to address you in terms of congratulation.

"For eight days and nights, almost without intermission, in rain and sunshine, you have been gallantly fighting a desperate foe, in positions naturally strong, and rendered doubly so by intrenchments.

"You have compelled him to abandon his fortifications on the Rapidan, to retire and attempt to stop your onward progress, and now he has abandoned the last intrenched position so tenaciously held, suffering in all a loss of eighteen guns, twenty-two colors, and eight thousand prisoners, including two General officers.

" Your heroic deeds, and noble endurance of fatigue and privation, will ever be memorable. Let us return thanks to God for the mercy thus shown us, and ask earnestly for its continuance.

"Soldiers ! Your work is not yet over. The enemy must be pursued, and, if possible, overcome. The courage and fortitude you have displayed renders your Commanding General confident that your future efforts will result in success.

"While we mourn the loss of many gallant comrades, let us remember that the enemy must have suffered equal if not greater losses.

"We shall soon receive reinforcements which he can not expect.

" Let us determine then to continue vigorously the work so well begun, and under God's blessing in a short time the object of our labors will be accomplished.

"GEORGE G. MEADE,

"Major-General Commanding." On Friday Hancock's advance discovered another change in Lee's position, due probably to the advantage gained on the previous day by General Grant on his right. On Thursday Carroll, one of the bravest officers of Hancock's corps, was Severely wounded.

SHERIDAN'S CAVALRY RAID.

Tuesday he crossed the South Anna, and on Wednesday captured Ashland station, a locomotive with a train of cars, some Government buildings with stores, and six miles of railroad, including three culverts, two trestle bridges, and the telegraph wire. After this he set out for Richmond, and finding a Confederate cavalry force at Yellow Tavern, he made an attack, capturing two pieces of artillery, and driving the enemy. The Confederate force was commanded by General J. E. B. Stuart, who was killed in the engagement. In the mean while a party charged down the Brock road and took the first line of works around Richmond. After some skirmishing Friday found him at Bottom's Bridge, leaving lost somewhat ever 300 men. The Virginia Central Railroad bridges

over the Chickahominy were destroyed. At 3 o'clock on Saturday Sheridan reached Turkey Island and joined General Butler.

On the 7th five brigades, under General Brooks, struck for the Petersburg and Richmond Railroad, which, after a severe encounter with the enemy, they succeeded in cutting; a bridge on the road was destroyed seven miles north of Petersburg.

After intrenching himself Butler closed about the defenses of Fort Darling at Drury's Bluff and carried a portion of the earth works. The latest dispatches bring information of successful assaults made by Gillmore and Smith.

The Commodore Jones, one of the smaller gun boats, was destroyed on the 6th by a torpedo. This incident is illustrated by our artist on page 348. Two other small gun boats were destroyed by explosion.

GENERAL SIGEL'S MOVEMENTS.

Sherman, simultaneously with Grant's advance Richmondward, moved on Dalton in three columns; Thomas in front, Schofield from Cleveland on the northeast, while M'Pherson threw himself on the line of communication southwest at Resaca, fifteen miles south of Dalton. On Saturday, the 7th, Thomas occupied Tunnel Hill, ten miles northwest of Dalton, and took up a strong position at Buzzard's Roost. By the flank movement on Resaca Johnston was forced to evacuate Dalton. On Sunday, the 15th, a battle was fought at Resaca, in which Sherman states his losses to have been 3000.

Sherman captured Resaca on Monday, the 16th, with 10 guns and 1200 prisoners, and expected that evening to reach Kingston, whither had retreated. Kilpatrick had been wounded.

Admiral Porter, at late advices, was at Alexandria. A large force was engaged in damming up the river so as to give sufficient depth to allow the gun boats to pass over. General Grover was in command there. No communication was opened with the army at Grand Ecore. McClernand was at New Orleans to reinforce , and Smith was to return to Vicksburg. From the Iatter place an expedition was being fitted out to move on Yazoo City, where were the rebel Generals Lee, Ross, and Adams. This expedition, under the command of General McArthur, has succeeded in capturing Yazoo City. had not overtaken Forrest.

In Arkansas Steele was confident of maintaining his position on the Arkansas River, although Kirby Smith was menacing Pine Bluff. If the rebels should he able to cross the Arkansas, Steele's communications on the White River will be imperiled.

The rebel forces in North Carolina are being with drawn into Virginia. General Palmer commands at Newbern. Our fleet leave again opened upon the rebel forte and batteries on James and Sullivan's Island, Charleston.

About 9.30 A.M. on Monday last, May 9, the Harriet A. Weed, army transport, armed with two guns, was blown up and sunk by collision with two torpedoes in the St. John's River, off Cedar Creek, not far from the military post at Yellow Bluff, about ten miles from Jacksonville.

The Secretary of War has issued an important order with regard to prisoners, stating that as it has been officially reported that Mr. Ould, Rebel Commissioner of Exchange, has declared, without consulting with the authorities of the United States, that all rebel prisoners delivered at City Point up to the 20th of April were exchanged, it is ordered that all Union prisoners of war and all civilians on parole prior to May 7, 1864, be declared exchanged. The order further states that the rebels still remain indebted to the Union Government 33,596 prisoners, for whom no equivalent has been received.

THE SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN WAR.

THE Schleswig-Holstein war still continues notwithstanding the Conference. There are indications that the Danes will evacuate Alsen. The Prussians have again advanced into Jutland, and on April 23 were just south of Aarhus. They have also occupied Fredericia. Austria is sending a powerful naval force to the Baltic. The Danish authorities have pledged themselves not to disturb German vessels carrying the United States mails.

On May 5 three or four Austrian ships of war had arrived in the Downs, and others were on their way. The English Channel fleet is also in the Downs. It was reported that a French fleet would soon join the others, but the Moniteur of Paris declared that if this were done it would be only for the purpose of supporting the demand for an armistice.

The London Conference meet again, May 4, but accomplished nothing. The demand made by the neutral Powers for an armistice leas been referred by the representatives of the belligerent Powers to their Governments for instructions. Another meeting was to take place on the 9th of May. Prussia and Austria offered to accept the armistice, and to evacuate Jutland, if the Danes will raise the blockade, return the captured ships, and evacuate the Island of Alsen. The Prussian and Austrian troops have now taken possession of all Jutland except that part north of Liim Forth.

The English Government declines to accede to the pressure for a Conference on American affairs. In regard to the Tuscaloosa, the Attorney-General has declared in the House of Commons that the Government must regard her as an uncondemned prize. The resolution moved by Mr. Peacock, "that the instructions contained in the Duke of Newcastle's dispatch of the 4th of November, 1863, to the Government of the Cape of Good Hope, are at variance with the principles of international law," was rejected by 219 against 185 votes-a Ministerial majority of 34. Earl Russell, in a speech in the House of Lords, contended that it was owing to the vigilance of the Government that the Lairds had not plunged England into a war with the United States. Earl Russell expressed the earnest hope that the war would result in the final destruction of slavery.

An address of the Pope to the Archduke Maximilian is published. He recommends to him, in particular, to defend the rights of the Church.

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While the Field of Lost Shoes was filmed with rather remarkable precision to how the event happened historically, there are still some key differences compared to what the film showed. For example, John Wise a main character in the film, was fictionalized to portray a variety of different people historically. Also, the scene at the beginning of the movie is likely a fallacy and made up purely to entertain the audience. There are other small inaccuracies too, including the weather on the day of the battle, and the conversation that happened between the cadets on the battlefield. In the movie, the day of the battle was nice and sunny, whereas historically it was stormy and grey. This caused the mud from which the soldiers lost their shoes. Lastly, the writers most definitely made up the conversation during the battle to add suspense and entertainment.

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Next month, as it does every year, the Virginia Military Institute will honor ten cadets who were killed at the Battle of New Market - boys who were not supposed to fight, but ended up filling a gap in the confederate line.

They and 237 other cadets get credit for winning that battle and keeping union troops out of the Shenandoah Valley. Now they're the subject of a surprising film - written and produced by a man with no movie-making experience.

Tom Farrell pulled out all the stops to promote his first and only film - inviting VMI's band, the governor and other elected officials to march from the capitol to the Carpenter Theater.

That might seem like overkill for a guy who's never made a movie before, but Farrell is a man with considerable reach in Richmond. He's the CEO of Dominion Power, a company that last year gave nearly a million dollars to candidates for state office.

Of course the subject of this film is also near and dear to the hearts of many Virginians, including Tom Farrell:

"I used to drive by the battlefield. The road the cadets marched on is still there - Route 11, and VMI's still there, and they wear the same uniforms that they wore then, and I thought, 'Y'know what? You could make this into a movie if you did it right.'"

So Farrell put in a call to his roommate from the University of Virginia - David Kennedy - whose day job is consulting on films. He had lots of connections in Hollywood, and Farrell spent ten years persuading him to make this movie.

"It's not a documentary. It's not a set piece like you'd see on the History Channel or something like that. We wrote it to be more of a coming-of-age story about these young boys, and so we picked out six real cadets that we had historical records on - letters, diaries."

He and Kennedy spent two years writing the script. They called it "The Field of Lost Shoes".

"They marched 90 miles in four and a half days. It rained almost the entire time. As the boys went over a fence and ran across a newly planted wheat field, it had been raining for days, they didn't have boots in those days, and it just sucked the shoes off their feet as they ran up the hill."

The cadets ranged from 15 to 24 years of age, so Farrell and Kennedy hired a number of young actors featured in Disney films. They also cast Nolan Gould, better known as Luke on "Modern Family", Zak Vorig from "Vampire Diaries", Tom Skerritt who's starred in "MASH" and "Top Gun", Jason Isaacs from the Harry Potter movies, "Blackhawk Down" and "Patriot", and David Arquette from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Scream" and "Friends".

They spent a month planning and six weeks shooting at VMI, he state capitol and Westover Plantation. Farrell was rarely on the set, but he quickly discovered that making a movie is serious business.

"Every day that you're actually doing this costs a significant amount of money. You've got lighting crews, caterer and costume people, make up people, every day matters."

And he was painfully aware of the need to make money on the $5 million project.

"It is a commercial enterprise, and we had lots of investors who helped us put this together. Now they're all interested in the story, but this is a commercial enterprise."

VMI has an annual tradition of honoring alumni killed in battle - including the ten from New Market, and on May 15th of this year, they'll do so again. But in this - the 150th anniversary of that Civil War battle, they will also have a new way to celebrate the sacrifice - that most cherished of American honors, a Hollywood film.

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The Making of the Film: "Field of Lost Shoes"

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Next month, as it does every year, the Virginia Military Institute will honor ten cadets who were killed at the Battle of New Market - boys who were not...

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The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane

The Red Badge of Courage is a short novel, about a young boy who is thrilled for war, ready to get onto the battlefield and do a real man's job. However, he soon realizes that war is not for him, and is very different from what he had originally thought. One could read this book to get a glimpse into what life on the frontlines would be like, but from a teenage boy's perspective. It is very readable, so anyone could read it.

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The Field of Lost Shoes is a fantastic option for high schoolers and their history projects. It provides a very entertaining movie, as it is realistic, historically accurate, and relatable to teens. Personally, my favorite character was John Wise. I enjoy his humor, bravery, moral compass, as well as his sense of duty towards his comrades. Personally, I would give the movie a 4.5 out of 5 and would recommend it for anyone interested in watching it.

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The Field of Lost Shoes is a movie about a smaller, but more written-about battle, The Battle of New Market. The thesis is coming of age. A group of boys is thrust into the harsh conditions of war. They experience themes of bravery, courage, and brotherhood along the way. The film is also informational, presenting viewers with information on the modern-day ceremonies that take place each year at VMI to honor the cadets who died in the battle.

The Field of Lost Shoes takes place during the Civil War. It starts at the Virginia Military Institute, where a group of cadets welcome a newcomer by going and stealing from a slave named "Old Judge". They continue with military life, meeting women, and talking about their futures. They soon get called to the war front as Confederate reserves. They soon get tasked with frontline action, where they have experiences that most men never will. They lost 10 cadets, and many more were injured. Some of the original group of friends are killed, and then at the end of the movie, there is a modern-day ceremony for those cadets who died in the Battle of New Market.

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The Field of Lost Shoes taught me a lot about the Civil War. I learned just how desperate each side was to win the war. The Confederates resolved to use boys to fight in a war that hardly applied to them. Also, I didn't realize that not everyone fighting for a side agreed with their ideals. Many Confederate soldiers didn't believe in slavery but fought out of duty to their fellow soldiers. Lastly, I looked up primary sources from VMI to help me understand the rest.

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Even though The Field of Lost Shoes was a fantastic movie, there is still room for improvement. First of all, the plot moved too fast for my liking. There was little time to get to know the characters and to get attached. It seemed as though the audience finally met all the characters and was getting a feel for the movie and then they plunge into war, and some of them die. If they weren't lost entirely, their life was unturned entirely. Also, it could be argued that the movie is graphic in some areas, and quite sad. If I were to change it, I would give the audience ample time to understand the characters and what is going on.

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This letter is Samuel Atwill's accounting book which he writes to his parents. This shows how he (and the rest of the cadets) were just like me. They still have basic needs, and ask for things from their parents like I do. Also, it goes with the movie because the same boys that fought and died in the movie, are the same boys who rely on their parents for pencils, folders, and other essentials. They, however, were forced to take on a man's job, risking their lives for a rich man's war.

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THE BATTLE OF NEW MARKET - Joseph W. A. Whitehorne

This source is a very detailed account of the Battle of New Market. It greatly enhanced my understanding of the battle. It includes maps, as well as detailed descriptions of the geography of The Battle of New Market, helping the reader understand the battles better. Likewise, it also gives you lots of information on the main generals. In the first three pages of the text, the source elaborates on generals Lee, Grant, Breckinridge, and Sigel. This source is a fantastic place to find any information that you could want. It even contains a table of contents, making it that much easier to locate what you want.