62 Facts About Jeb Stuart

James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart was a United States Army officer from Virginia who became a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War.

Jeb Stuart graduated from West Point in 1854, and served in Texas and Kansas with the US Army.

Jeb Stuart was a veteran of the frontier conflicts with Native Americans and the violence of Bleeding Kansas, and he participated in the capture of John Brown at Harpers Ferry.

Jeb Stuart resigned his commission when his home state of Virginia seceded, to serve in the Confederate Army, first under Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley, but then in increasingly important cavalry commands of the Army of Northern Virginia, playing a role in all of that army's campaigns until his death.

Jeb Stuart established a reputation as an audacious cavalry commander and on two occasions circumnavigated the Union Army of the Potomac, bringing fame to himself and embarrassment to the North.

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Jeb Stuart received criticism from the Southern press as well as the proponents of the Lost Cause movement after the war.

Philip Sheridan's cavalry launched an offensive to defeat Jeb Stuart, who was mortally wounded at the Battle of Yellow Tavern.

Jeb Stuart was born at Laurel Hill Farm, a plantation in Patrick County, Virginia, near the border with North Carolina.

Jeb Stuart was the eighth of eleven children and the youngest of the five sons to survive past early age.

Jeb Stuart's father, Archibald Stuart, was a War of 1812 veteran, slaveholder, attorney, and Democratic politician who represented Patrick County in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly, and served one term in the United States House of Representatives.

Jeb Stuart's father Archibald was a cousin of attorney Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart.

Jeb Stuart was educated at home by his mother and tutors until the age of twelve, when he left Laurel Hill to be educated by various teachers in Wytheville, Virginia, and at the home of his aunt Anne and her husband Judge James Ewell Brown at Danville.

Jeb Stuart entered Emory and Henry College when he was fifteen, and attended from 1848 to 1850.

Jeb Stuart obtained an appointment in 1850 to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, from Representative Thomas Hamlet Averett, the man who had defeated his father in the 1848 election.

Jeb Stuart was a popular student and was happy at the Academy.

Robert E Lee was appointed superintendent of the academy in 1852, and Stuart became a friend of the family, seeing them socially on frequent occasions.

Jeb Stuart was commissioned a brevet second lieutenant and assigned to the US Regiment of Mounted Riflemen in Texas.

Jeb Stuart was transferred to the newly formed 1st Cavalry Regiment at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, where he became regimental quartermaster and commissary officer under the command of Col.

Also in 1855, Jeb Stuart met Flora Cooke, the daughter of the commander of the 2nd US Dragoon Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Philip St George Cooke.

Jeb Stuart humorously wrote of his rapid courtship in Latin, "Veni, Vidi, Victus sum".

Jeb Stuart was a veteran of the frontier conflicts with Native Americans and the antebellum violence of Bleeding Kansas.

Jeb Stuart was wounded on July 29,1857, while fighting at Solomon River, Kansas, against the Cheyenne.

Jeb Stuart was promoted to captain on April 22,1861, but resigned from the US Army on May 3,1861, to join the Confederate States Army, following the secession of Virginia.

Jeb Stuart was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel of Virginia Infantry in the Confederate Army on May 10,1861.

Jeb Stuart then commanded the Army's outposts along the upper Potomac River until given command of the cavalry brigade for the army then known as the Army of the Potomac.

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Jeb Stuart was promoted to brigadier general on September 24,1861.

Jeb Stuart fought at the Battle of Williamsburg, but in general the terrain and weather on the Peninsula did not lend themselves to cavalry operations.

Jeb Stuart was the only man in the Confederacy [who] could make Jackson laugh—and who dared to do so.

Robert E Lee became commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, he requested that Stuart perform reconnaissance to determine whether the right flank of the Union army was vulnerable.

Jeb Stuart's men met no serious opposition from the more decentralized Union cavalry, coincidentally commanded by his father-in-law, Col.

The maneuver was a public relations sensation and Jeb Stuart was greeted with flower petals thrown in his path at Richmond.

Jeb Stuart had become as famous as Stonewall Jackson in the eyes of the Confederacy.

Early in the Northern Virginia Campaign, Jeb Stuart was promoted to major general on July 25,1862, and his command was upgraded to the Cavalry Division.

At the Second Battle of Bull Run, Jeb Stuart's cavalry followed the massive assault by Longstreet's infantry against Pope's army, protecting its flank with artillery batteries.

Jeb Stuart's men harassed the retreating Union columns until the campaign ended at the Battle of Chantilly.

Jeb Stuart's reports make no reference to intelligence gathering by his scouts or patrols.

Jeb Stuart misjudged the Union routes of advance, ignorant of the Union force threatening Turner's Gap, and required assistance from the infantry of Maj.

Jeb Stuart began probing the Union lines with more artillery barrages, which were answered with "murderous" counterbattery fire and the cavalry movement intended by Jackson was never launched.

Jeb Stuart gave his friend Jackson a fine, new officer's tunic, trimmed with gold lace, commissioned from a Richmond tailor, which he thought would give Jackson more of the appearance of a proper general.

On March 17,1863, Jeb Stuart's cavalry clashed with a Union raiding party at Kelly's Ford.

At the Battle of Chancellorsville, Jeb Stuart accompanied Stonewall Jackson on his famous flanking march of May 2,1863, and started to pursue the retreating soldiers of the Union XI Corps when he received word that both Jackson and his senior division commander, Maj.

When Union troops abandoned Hazel Grove, Jeb Stuart had the presence of mind to quickly occupy it and bombard the Union positions with artillery.

Jeb Stuart requested a full field review of his troops by Gen.

Jeb Stuart is to be the eyes and ears of the army we advise him to see more, and be seen less.

Jeb Stuart has suffered no little in public estimation by the late enterprises of the enemy.

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The exact nature of those orders has been argued by the participants and historians ever since, but the essence was that Jeb Stuart was instructed to guard the mountain passes with part of his force while the Army of Northern Virginia was still south of the Potomac, and that he was to cross the river with the remainder of the army and screen the right flank of Ewell's Second Corps.

Jeb Stuart's brigades had been better positioned to guard their captured wagon train than to take advantage of the encounter with Kilpatrick.

Jeb Stuart ordered Wade Hampton to cover the left rear of the Confederate battle lines, and Hampton fought with Brig.

Ewell's corps was sent to rescue him, but Jeb Stuart hid his troopers in a wooded ravine until the unsuspecting III Corps moved on, and the assistance was not necessary.

The Southern press began to mute its criticism of Jeb Stuart following his successful performance during the fall campaign.

Ulysses S Grant's offensive against Lee in the spring of 1864, began at the Battle of the Wilderness, where Stuart aggressively pushed Thomas L Rosser's Laurel Brigade into a fight against George Custer's better-armed Michigan Brigade, resulting in significant losses.

Jeb Stuart dispatched a force of about 3,000 cavalrymen to intercept Sheridan's cavalry, which was more than three times their numbers.

Jeb Stuart suffered great pain as an ambulance took him to Richmond to await his wife's arrival at the home of Dr Charles Brewer, his brother-in-law.

John Huff, the private who had fatally wounded Jeb Stuart, was killed in action just a few weeks later at the Battle of Haw's Shop.

Jeb Stuart lived in Saltville, Virginia, for 15 years after the war, where she opened and taught at a school in a log cabin.

Jeb Stuart worked from 1880 to 1898 as principal of the Virginia Female Institute in Staunton, Virginia, a position for which Robert E Lee had recommended her before his death ten years earlier.

Jeb Stuart died in Norfolk on May 10,1923, after striking her head in a fall on a city sidewalk.

Jeb Stuart is buried alongside her husband and their daughter, Little Flora, in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond.

Jeb Stuart had been the Confederacy's knight-errant, the bold and dashing cavalier, attired in a resplendent uniform, plumed hat, and cape.

Jeb Stuart crafted the image carefully, and the image befitted him.

In December 2006, a personal Confederate battle flag, sewn by Flora Jeb Stuart, was sold in a Heritage Auction for a world-record price for any Confederate flag, for $956,000.

Jeb Stuart Hall School is a Staunton, Virginia, co-educational school for students from pre-kindergarten to Grade 12, and it offers a boarding program from Grades 8 to 12.