Word: jeb
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Robert E. Lee's cavalry general was James Ewell Brown ("Jeb") Stuart, killed at Yellow Tavern in the last days of the war, but when somebody asked Lee at Appomattox who was the greatest soldier under his command, Lee answered, "A man I have never seen, sir. His name is Forrest...
...JEB STUART-John W. Thomason-Scribners...
...seem queer now, but in the old days men fought on horseback. James Ewell Brown ("Jeb") Stuart was one of the best of them. When the Civil War began he was 27, a regular U. S. cavalry officer, six years out of West Point. When a Yankee trooper's bullet brought him down at Yellow Tavern he was the 31-year-old Major-General commanding the cavalry and horse artillery of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Captain Thomason, a soldier who likes his trade, a Southerner (from Texas) whose ancestors fought the Yankees, is a good...
...says the author of "Jeb Stuart," a Captain of Marines, in his introduction. It is an excellent epitome of the quality of the book. Tiresome, Capt. Thompson is not. Nor is he technical to achieve accuracy, although the five hundred page biography is profusely illustrated with diagrams and maps. Too, "Jeb Stuart" is first a portrait of a man and a soldier. Capt. Thompson, it must be admitted is not entirely unbiased, but his leanings toward the Confederacy' are concerned mainly with the gallant group of men about whom he has probably heard all his life. As he says, perhaps...
Virginian, West Pointer, cavalry officer. Major-general of the Confederate army at thirty, and killed in battle before the fall "in the fourth year of the Republic," Jeb Stuart was, before any of these things, essentially a human, forceful personality. Fastidious in dress, possessing an excellent voice and sense of humor, and leaving poker and whiskey alone, Stuart was intoxicated with the beauty of Virginia, women and horses. Robert E. Lee said of him, "General Stuart was my ideal of a soldier." Which, according to the tenor of the book, was the one compliment Stuart would have desired...