One of the interesting survivors of the New Market battle was Moses Ezekiel. He was the first Jewish cadet at VMI and he nursed a friend of his until his friend died. He himself had been wounded.
Moses Ezekiel went on to pursue his interest in art and became known as a sculptor. He did the monument that honors the VMI cadets who died at New Market as well as a statue of Thomas Jefferson that stands at the University of Virginia. (Thomas G. Jefferson - a grandnephew of T. Jefferson also died at New Market).
He was knighted for his art work by Victor Emmanuel III (we read about his father Victor Emmanuel II previously - when he became king of Italy) and received various other awards and honors from other European rulers.
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