The officer was Gen. Gabriel Colvin Wharton, a native of Culpeper County and a graduate of Virginia Military Institute. In 1863 — in the middle of the Civil War — Wharton married Anne ...

Hundreds gathered in Lexington this week to relive the old days. Virginia Military Institute held a big reunion for five ...

For 29 years beginning in 1919, Virginia Military Institute was host to a formal cavalry that at one point exceeded 200 ...