[John S Mosby]

And forgetting, of course that J.E.B. Stuart fought in the the Kansas theatre of “Bleeding Kansas” against the violence wrought by abolitionist loonies of the time, and John Brown who was a terrorist.

Actors say other’s written lines. Because they do they somehow think this imparts intelligence. It doesn’t. Just celebrity.

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And forgetting, of course that J.E.B. Stuart fought in the the Kansas theatre of “Bleeding Kansas” against the violence wrought by abolitionist loonies of the time, and John Brown who was a terrorist.

In the movies, maybe.

How much of that was actually true?

Stuart knew about Brown from Kansas and apparently had even met him there, but his fighting in Kansas seems to have been against the Cheyenne Indians.

Stuart did join with Lee to crush Brown's Harper's Ferry raid back east.