J. E. B. Stuart | Wikipedia audio article
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J. E. B. Stuart


00:02:26 1 Early life
00:03:27 1.1 Education
00:05:42 2 United States Army
00:09:48 3 Confederate Army
00:09:57 3.1 Early service
00:11:03 3.2 Peninsula
00:12:28 3.3 Northern Virginia
00:13:51 3.4 Maryland
00:16:47 3.5 Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville
00:20:17 3.6 Brandy Station
00:23:30 3.7 Stuart's ride in the Gettysburg Campaign
00:26:57 3.8 Gettysburg and its aftermath
00:32:03 3.9 Fall 1863 and the 1864 Overland Campaign
00:34:21 3.10 Yellow Tavern and death
00:38:50 4 Legacy and memorials
00:43:42 5 In popular culture
00:43:51 5.1 Comics
00:44:19 5.2 Films
00:44:56 5.3 Television
00:45:22 5.4 Literature
00:47:15 5.5 Music
00:47:35 6 See also



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James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart (February 6, 1833 – May 12, 1864) was a United States Army officer from the U.S. state of Virginia, who later became a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War. He was known to his friends as "Jeb", from the initials of his given names. Stuart was a cavalry commander known for his mastery of reconnaissance and the use of cavalry in support of offensive operations. While he cultivated a cavalier image (red-lined gray cape, yellow sash, hat cocked to the side with an ostrich plume, red flower in his lapel, often sporting cologne), his serious work made him the trusted eyes and ears of Robert E. Lee's army and inspired Southern morale.Stuart graduated from West Point in 1854, and served in Texas and Kansas with the U.S. Army. He 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.
He resigned, 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. He established a reputation as an audacious cavalry commander and on two occasions (during the Peninsula Campaign and the Maryland Campaign) circumnavigated the Union Army of the Potomac, bringing fame to himself and embarrassment to the North. At the Battle of Chancellorsville, he distinguished himself as a temporary commander of the wounded Stonewall Jackson's infantry corps.
Arguably Stuart's most famous campaign, Gettysburg, was marred when he was surprised by a Union cavalry attack at the Battle of Brandy Station and by his separation from Lee's army for an extended period, leaving Lee unaware of Union troop movements and contributing to the Confederate defeat at the Battle of Gettysburg. Stuart received significant criticism from the Southern press as well as the postbellum proponents of the Lost Cause movement, but historians have failed to agree on whether Stuart's exploit was entirely the fault of his judgment or simply a result of bad luck and Lee's less-than-explicit orders.
During the 1864 Overland Campaign, Union Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan's cavalry launched an offensive to defeat Stuart, who was mortally wounded at the Battle of Yellow Tavern. Stuart's widow wore black for the rest of her life in remembrance of her deceased husband.