General J.E.B. Stuart was commander of the Cavalry Corps of General Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia for much of the Civil War. J.E.B. Stuart was superb in the role, providing the army with valuable reconnaissance as its eyes and ears, while deftly supporting battlefield operations. J.E.B. Stuart was the ideal of the “cavalier,” dashing in full uniform with a rakish plumed hat. Stuart’s reputation, however, was tarnished during the Gettysburg Campaign, in which he lost contact with General Lee for several crucial days. Stuart was mortally wounded at the Battle of Yellow Tavern and died at the age of 31 on May 12, 1864.
J.E.B. Stuart
Under a bright, high sun in a pale blue Midwestern sky, six companies of the United States Cavalry’s 1st Regiment rode into a grassy valley bordering the south fork of the Solomon River in northwestern Kansas on the afternoon of July 29, 1857. Read more
J.E.B. Stuart
The White House was a somber place in the summer of 1862. The Civil War was in the midst of its second costly year, and the Union armies had yet to win a significant victory in the eastern theater. Read more
J.E.B. Stuart
The ground around Manassas, Virginia, was not auspicious for Union Army forces in the first two years of the Civil War. Read more
J.E.B. Stuart
Major General James Ewell Brown “J.E.B.” Stuart was in all his glory. It was June 8, 1863, the day before the Battle of Brandy Station. Read more
J.E.B. Stuart
Sent into north-central Virginia to threaten Richmond on a second front, McDowell had managed to get lost in the woods near Gainesville and lost touch with his command for 12 full hours. Read more
J.E.B. Stuart
Following his greatest victory, at the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863, Confederate Lt. Gen. Thomas J. Read more
J.E.B. Stuart
The city of New York provided more regiments than did many states during the Civil War, and the deeds of several of its regiments, such as the 9th New York “Hawkins’s Zouaves,” 39th New York “Garibaldi Guard,” and 42nd New York “Tammany Regiment” are well known. Read more
J.E.B. Stuart
As the bright red sun was slowly setting over their shoulders on the balmy evening of August 28, 1862, Union troops marching east along the Warrenton Turnpike knew nothing of what awaited them. Read more
J.E.B. Stuart
The citizens of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, awoke one morning in late June 1863 to find the Civil War literally at their doorsteps. Read more
J.E.B. Stuart
On the night of February 28, 1864, an advanced unit of bluecoat troopers captured two guards at the Rapidan River ford, and the remainder in a house near the river. Read more
J.E.B. Stuart
One of the primary reasons given for the Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run was the lack of adequate cavalry. Read more
