"The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad – 4" Did you notice our editors' description of Stuart's raid into Pennsylvania?
"...opportunity has thus been afforded Gen. STUART to accomplish one of the most brilliant and effective dashes which has ever been executed -- thus again reviving the depressed condition of the Confederates, and creating the greatest annoyance and mortification to the loyal people of the North."
After major defeats at Antietam and Perryville, Confederates can console themselves with Stuart's
"most brilliant and effective dash...".
Seems a little odd to be heaping such praise on an action which, so far as I can tell, had no serious strategic value... ?
Seems a little odd to be heaping such praise on an action which, so far as I can tell, had no serious strategic value... ?
It hurt the South if it caused McClellan’s removal.