Chapter VIII
Tell about McClellan’s campaign in the autumn of 1862 and the retreat of the cavalry toward Culpeper.
What exciting adventure did Stuart have at Ashby’s Gap?
What qualities as a man and a soldier did Stuart show during the illness and after the death of his “little Flora”?
When and how did Stuart lose a part of his mustache?
What was the condition of Stuart’s cavalry at the time that Burnside took McClellan’s place as commander of the Federal army?
Tell about the snowball fight in the Confederate camp at Fredericksburg.
What part did Stuart and his cavalry take in the battle of Fredericksburg?
How did Pelham, the young chief of the Stuart Horse Artillery, distinguish himself in this battle?
Tell about the Dumfries Raid and the joke that Stuart played on the Federal quartermaster at Washington.
Tell about the friendship between Stuart and Jackson.
What changes took place in the Federal army in the early spring of 1863?