Bold dragoon : the life of J.E.B. Stuart
Jeb Stuart, the leader of the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia, earned the admiration of his enemies and the adulation of his friends through his remarkable exploits on the batlefied during the first three years of the Civil War. Famed for his daring ride around McClellan during the Peninsula Campaign, for his raids behind Union lines in Virginia, into Maryland and Pennsylvania, for his dashing good looks, high spirits, and bravery, he was a legend long before his fatal wound at Yellow Tavern in 1864. In his incisive account of Stuart's life and achievements, Emory M. Thomas, professor of history at the University of Georgia, follows Stuart's career from his childhood in western Viriginia to his untimely death a year before Appomattox. Based on extensive research and utilizing new primary sources, including Stuart's own letters, the book examines Stuart's crucial role as Lee's aide during John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, his brilliant charge at the head of 350 cavalrymen during the Battle of Bull Run, his great value as Lee's eyes and ears in following Union movements while screning Confederate dispositions, and his participation in all the major battles of the East until his death- Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness. Professor Thomas also examines the controversies that arose over Stuart's losing touch with Lee in the crucial days before Gettysburg, his purported embellishment of some battle reports, his penchant for self-glorification and the adulation of Southern belles; and he addresses the question: Was Stuart an anachronism, the romantic cavalier in a modern war? Or was he a true hero, who left a large though intangible legacy at his untimely death? -- Provided by publisher
Biography
xi, 354 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780060155667, 0060155663
12696007
Young James
"Beauty"
Lieutenant Stuart
The campaign for captain
Colonel Stuart
General Stuart
Jeb
Major General Jeb
Knight of the Golden Spurs
Fame
"One of those fops"
Gettysburg
Stuart as usual
"I had rather die than be whipped."