
Dynamic, talented, creative and hardworking individual seeking an appointment to the Virginia Military Institute to join -
"The healthful and pleasant abode of a crowd of honorable youths pressing up the hill of science with noble emulation, a gratifying spectacle, an honor to our country and our state. Objects of honest pride to their instructors and fair specimens of citizen soldiers, attached to their native state, proud of her fame and ready in time of deepest peril to vindicate her honor and to vindicate her honor or defend her rights". Col. J. T. L. Preston.