September 1, 1914
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The publishers wish to acknowledge their obligations to Mrs. H. B. McClellan for permission to use material from her husband’s book, Life and Campaigns of General J. E. B. Stuart; to General T. T. Munford and to Judge Theodore S. Garnett for information and pictures; to Mr. J. E. B. Stuart and the Confederate Museum, Richmond, Va., for permission to make photographic copies of the personal relics of General Stuart in the Museum; and to Mrs. J. E. B. Stuart for the ambrotype and letters of General Stuart which she allowed to be copied for use in this book and for the invaluable aid of her careful critical reading of the manuscript.
CONTENTS
Chapter Page [Preface] 3 [List of Maps and Illustrations] 6 [List of Books] 8 [Introduction] 9 I [Youthful Days] 13 II [A Lieutenant in the United States Cavalry] 22 III [A Colonel of Confederate Cavalry] 34 IV [A Brigadier General: The Peninsular Campaign and the Chickahominy Raid] 44 V [A Major General: Camp Life and the Second Battle of Manassas] 68 VI [The Maryland Campaign] 80 VII [The Chambersburg Raid] 94 VIII [The Cavalry at Culpeper and Fredericksburg] 109 IX [Chancellorsville] 124 X [The Battle of Brandy Station] 139 XI [The Gettysburg Campaign] 151 XII [Final Campaigns and Death] 167 XIII [Some Tributes to Stuart] 191 [Suggestive Questions] 203 [The Organization of an Army] 210 [Word List] 211
LIST OF MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE [General Stuart in 1854]Frontispiece [Ruins of Liberty Hall Academy]14 [Emory and Henry College about 1850]17 [J. E. B. Stuart when a Student at West Point]19 [Badge of West Point Graduates]20 [Carrying the Gun down the ‘Mulepath’]23 [Indians of the Plains]29 [Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry]31 [Picketed Cavalry Horse]41 [Stuart’s Gauntlets]44 [Stuart’s Cavalry Boots]45 [Map of the Chickahominy Raid]53 [The Burial of Latané]55 [The Chickahominy River]58 [Ruins of Railroad Bridge across Pamunkey River]63 [Facsimile of Page of Letter from General Stuart to his Wife]72 [Catlett’s Station]74 [Major Heros Von Borcke]82 [Map Showing the Routes of Stuart’s Cavalry in Gettysburg Campaign and Chambersburg Raid]95 [Stuart’s Sword]98 [Stuart’s Pistol]99 [Stuart’s Carbine]99 [General Stuart in 1862]107 [Major John Pelham]110 [Confederates Destroying Railroad]119 [Federals Repairing Railroad which Confederates had Destroyed]121 [A Pontoon Bridge]128 [General Stonewall Jackson]135 [Map of Battle of Brandy Station]143 [The Battle of Brandy Station]145 [A Federal Wagon Park]155 [The Toll of War]160 [The House in which Stuart died]186 [Monument in Hollywood]196 [Monument at Yellow Tavern]198 [Stuart Statue, Richmond]201
LIST OF BOOKS
For Reference and Teachers’ Use
H. B. McClellan: Life and Campaigns of General J. E. B. Stuart Heros Von Borcke: Memoirs of the War for Confederate Independence John S. Mosby: Campaigns of Stuart’s Cavalry George M. Neese: Three Years in the Confederate Horse Artillery Theodore S. Garnett: Major-General J. E. B. Stuart G. F. R. Henderson: Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War Gamaliel Bradford: Confederate Portraits John Esten Cooke: Surry of Eagle’s Nest J. William Jones: Christ in the Camp, or Religion in Lee’s Army Southern Historical Society Papers,— Vol. 1, pp. 99-103; Address by Fitzhugh Lee Vol. 8, pp. 434-’56; Character Sketch by H. B. McClellan Vol. 37, pp. 210-’31; Stuart at Gettysburg by R. H. McKim See also other articles on Stuart in the Southern Historical Papers.