Word: jeb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ground rules observed with equal fervor by editorial writers and politicians is that the Civil War is about as amenable to levity as motherhood. It was a reasonably calculated risk for President Eisenhower to call Confederate General Jeb Stuart a headline hunter, and for Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery to label Pickett's charge as ''monstrous." But when Ike and Monty jocularly agreed that Generals Lee and Meade should have been ''sacked'' for their blunders at Gettysburg (TIME, May 20). they committed themselves irrevocably to battle...
...plausible but otherwise unsubstantiated explanation advanced by Confederate Colonel W. W. Blackford in his vividly reported diary, War Years with Jeb Stuart...
...feet up an observation tower (puffed Ike's physician, Major General Howard Snyder, who trailed them: "They're giving my patient a workout. He'll probably be criticized by the doctors"). Together the old soldiers studied rolling terrain to the northeast where Confederate Cavalryman Jeb Stuart maneuvered (on the way down from Carlisle) ineffectually while the battle raged. "Lee was let down by Stuart," said Ike in disapproval. "What beat Stuart was his love of headlines." Montgomery was visibly unimpressed by Confederate attempts to crack the Union right at the hill. "I shouldn't have fought...
...where is Jeb Stuart, "the eye of the army"? Off where he should not be, and his cavalry boxed by the Federals, because he exploited the courteous imprecision of Lee's orders in hopes of recouping some personal glory. And Long-street-why did he not attack as told, while opportunity still lay before him? "He wouldn't disobey commands," says a lesser general. "That's true, sir. But he might refuse requests," replies another. With the expert advice of Bruce Catton and Drama Critic Walter Kerr, Director Delbert (Marty) Mann and Author Sapinsley underscored the theme...
...mother was a Virginia Stuart, descended from an impressive roster of jurists and socialites-but not, as reported, directly from Confederate General James Ewell Brown ("Jeb") Stuart. Jeb apparently was a distant kinsman, a member of what Outerbridge's forebears joked was "the cadet branch of the family...