[reed13k]

I’ve always struggled with the description of Stuart as the greatest cavalry officer ever. My reasoning is I feel his actions at Gettysburg left Lee blind and that decisions would have been significantly different otherwise.

I realize it was only one battle, but the impact is such that I can’t see him as the greatest ever.

[DocJ69]

I thought John Wayne was in “She Wore A Yellow Ribbon”.

[BlueLancer]

"I’ve always struggled with the description of Stuart as the greatest cavalry officer ever."

General Sir Harry Paget Flashman wrote in his memoirs that he believed that the Sioux leader Gall was the greatest light cavalry leader in history.

I know ... I know ... Flashman is fictional, but George McDonald Fraser lays out a fair argument for it in "Flashman and the Redskins".