Word: stuarts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Buffalo. William Matthews Kecking, director of the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo, reported to New York police last week that the pernicious William Wilbur J. Cooke had sold two spurious Stuart Washingtons for $21,000 each, one to Seymour Horace Knox, banker-poloist of Buffalo and East Aurora, N. Y.; one to Walstein C. Findlay of Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Findlay fortunately had paid but $5,000 cash when the fraud was discovered...
...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...
...Stuart was a fine figure of a man, just under six feet, big-boned, with a wide-flaring bronze beard and sweeping mustachios. "There was an elegance about him. He wore gauntlets of white buckskin, and rode in a gray shell jacket, double-breasted, buttoned back to show a close gray vest. His sword . . . was belted over a cavalry sash of golden silk with tasseled ends. His gray horseman's cloak was lined with scarlet. He liked to wear a red rose in his jacket . . . and a love-knot of red ribbon when flowers were out of season...
...beginning, before the North had collected itself and learned how to fight, Stuart's cavalry had the edge over the Yankees. But every brush cost him some irreplaceable men and horses. Besides skirmishes he was in every big battle in the East: first and second Manassas, the Seven Days' Battle, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Antietam, the Wilderness. When McClellan invaded Virginia, Stuart's 80-mile, 24-hour raid across his rear with 1,800 troopers and four guns established what Capt. Thomason thinks is a record: "I know of no equal exploit in the cavalry annals...