Thomas Garland Jefferson (January 1, 1847 – May 18, 1864) was one of the VMI Cadets killed at the Battle of New Market.

[2] He was their oldest son, one of 14 children, on a plantation growing cotton and tobacco.

[3][4] On May 15, 1864, at the Battle of New Market, Major General John C. Breckinridge reluctantly ordered the charge of the young cadets to fill a gap in his right wing; the cadets pushed further and overran a Union artillery position, ensuring their place in the Confederacy's last major battlefield victory of the war.

When two fellow cadets ran to assist him, he told them to carry on fighting, reportedly saying: "You can do me no good.

He is buried below the statue of Virginia Mourning Her Dead sculpted by Ezekiel in his later years.