Posted on 10/06/2002 9:15:34 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
Edited on 05/07/2004 9:00:23 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
As commander of the Confederate Cavalry, Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart was a larger-than-life figure best known today for his daring raids and reconnaissance missions -- at times in Union territory.
Despite his reputation for flamboyance and derring-do, James Ewell Brown Stuart was also an intelligent, well-educated, faithful husband and father who spent only a small part of his time as the Army of Northern Virginia's chief of cavalry raiding Northern territory, according to historians and students of his life.
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GEN Jackson would have thrown 4th Aabama back into the fight. Chamberlain's MAINE-iacs were BRAVE but nearly out of ammo. had we taken out 20th ME, the army of the potomac was TOAST!
free dixie,sw
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....'the young general'.....they were all very young men..their facial hair plus the old photos make them look older than they were....the average general in the South was 35 and in the North was 37....Lee, in his 50s was quite an exception......to this day, I believe Custer holds the record for the youngest brigadier [23?] in the US Army's history.....a record that will probably never be broken....
Good luck to everybody!
Stonewalls
Walt
ROTFLMBO, N-S! Well spoken, my Northern friend.
If not, this son of the South would happily remedy the oversight.
free dixie,sw
I read years ago that thousands of patriotic young men flocked to Old Glory in response to President Lincoln's call for volunteers to preserve the Union and the vast future of all mankind. By the battle of Fredricksburg, where they assaulted the unassailable over and over, they were mostly dead.
It was Stuart and Lee and Jackson and Lngstreet and the rest --fighting for the cause of slavery -- of all things, that killed those fine young idealistic men.
Now we see the constant rant of lies and distortion and false hero-worship on Free Republic and elsewhere. It just repels me.
Stuart, Lee, Jackson and the rest were not and are not heroes. They were vile traitors.
Walt
You'd bite Walt? I don't know about that. There's a lot of things I'd do for the South but I don't know. How many shots you'd have to get afterwards?
Walt
Not nearly enough. No where near enough.
Make that 'many shots would you'
Think of it as something akin to throwing yourself on a handgrenade. Not something you'd relish - but done for the greater good.
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