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The original JEB, God Bless him!

[Conservababe]

"The Gray Ghost". One of my favorite television programs as a child in the fifties.

[wardaddy]

Stuart was daring and brave and gave it all. I like him but Bedford was "the man". Lee should have reeled that boy in at some point....before Gettysburg.

[weikel]

His two "ride-arounds" of the Union Army -- first in 1862 and again in 1863 -- became the stuff of legend and in the case of the first raid, helped lead to Gen. George McClellan's removal as commander of the Army of the Potomac, historians believe.

Something that led to the incompetent McClellan's removal had to be a pyrric victory. Nathan Bedford Forest was the best Confederate cavalry commander( and the only man Sherman feared).

[Twodees]

That's the photo of JEB that I have in my house.

[STONEWALLS]

"Stuart has been criticized for his activities just before the Battle of Gettysburg."
....personally, I think he dawdled....I know when he got to Rockville, MD he and some of his men stopped at a girls school, dismounted and danced with the girls for a while....one of his wings crossed the Patapsco River at Hood's Mill and burned the bridge on the main line of the Baltimore & Ohio RR....they went right past my gggrandfather's farm...my family stood in front yard and watched them.....my gggrandfather gave them a wagonload of grain and the women went in the house and scraped their bedsheets with tableknives to get the lint to pack wounds...then they tore their bedsheets into strips and gave them and the lint to Stuart's men...everybody knew it was going to be a bad fight coming...these stories were told to me as a child in the early 50s...
Good luck to everybody!
Stonewalls

[STONEWALLS]

"Still revered today throughout the South in the same way Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson are immortalized, the young general was charismatic, brave and by all accounts, a brilliant cavalry leader."

....'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

[WhiskeyPapa]

Stuart, Lee, Jackson, Longstreet, Johnston, Hood, Davis...losers, all, and nothing but losers.

Walt

[Commander8]

A true credit to the gray uniform.
Hoorah for Dixie!!!

[Jemian]

Stuart was bold....Perhaps he thought he was larger than life, but alas, no

The reason Stuart was bold is that he had an unshakeable faith in a sovereign, omnipotent Lord. He knew that nothing happens outside God's perfect will and that even bullets follow the path of the Lord. He went calmly into battle and he went calmly into death.

If the biographer ommitted Stuart's faith, it is a writing which reports only part of the man, an incomplete and suspect picture. I have no doubt that I will meet him worshipping the Lamb along with the other believers in the resurrection.