Excerpt from Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va: Official Register, 1871 The Virginia Military Institute had just placed itself before the public, as a General School of Applied Science, for the develop ment Of the agricultural, mineral, commercial, manufacturing, and internal improvement interests Of the State and Country, when the army of Gen. Hunter destroyed its stately buildings, and consigned to the flames its library Of volumes, the Philo Sophical apparatus used for 10 years by stonewall jackson, and all its chemicals. The cadets were then transferred to Rich mond, and the Institution was continued in vigorous Operation until the evacuation of Richmond, on the 3d April, 1865. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.