About an hour north of Staunton, on May 11, 1864, more than 250 VMI cadets began a rainy four-day march to New Market, 80 miles north of Lexington. Their objective was to bolster a small Confederate force defending the Shenandoah Valley. Ten cadets lost their lives. The Virginia Museum of the Civil War and self-guided battlefield tour bring the human scale of that day into focus