New Market Battlefield

On Monday of our trip we traveled north to New Market Virginia to see a battlefield and the Civil War Medal of Valor Museum. It was quite interesting. This particular battle took place in a farmers field and involved a platoon from the Virginia Military Institute. Several of whom were killed in the battle. However the original farm house has been restored as well as several of the original farm building like the smokehouse, ice house, kitchen, and chicken coop were also restored and available to tour. Adam also got the cutest Civil War Confederacy Hat and Flag. Grandpa Nixon who is a huge Civil War buff and despite having just finished radiation treatment for brain cancer, went with us on the trip and thoroughly enjoyed this historic site.






Isn't he the cutest??