Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1864-05-14

eonu9ed py desperate stand o. me enemy rs que Of
their eGrthworks. Captain Robert Tyler, Aahones Adj
utant General vas wounded In tAs leg while CALAMITY
leading and urging the men on Lieut. Col. Whitehead,
Of the 18th Virginia ALEC wounded In the right side
during the engagement
Having bean eighty wounded during this charge,
have failed to be witness of the Sighting this evening,
but the news coming in from the front is of the most
cheering character. gentleman just from hahone's
brigade since dark reports that they bad not been en-
gagged this evening
TIE LATE MAJOR GENERAL J. =. b. STUART.
As We brieAyssated in this column il our issue of ye-
tsrdAy this gallant General died in this city at the res
dencs of his brOherin law Dr. Brewer Grace street,
on Thursday evening about o'clock, of wounds re-
ceiVed in the fight with the Yankees on Wednesday
afternoon, near Yellow Tavern.
Never, before certainly since the death Of Stone
wall Jsekson has the demise Of any Southern leader
produced profound sensation among all classes Of
our community. They seem reluctant TO- Iealizs the
painful truth that the gallant and dashiDg cavalier whose
presence ever inspired confidence in troops, and
who, on so many battle fields had exposed his person
with reckless disregard of dsrger-cheeriDg his men
wherever the ght was hottest and the foe strongest
had at last fallen Many Strong man's eyes Gin.
mad with tears and many stout heart filed with the
most poignant sorrow. Or oOuntrywOmen, too, SEEM
si 10 forget foe the time that the aceursei Yankees
threatening beautiful city with FIRE and sword,
in their deep concern over the loss of to whom
they had learned to look in the most trying hour for
protection aud defense
But he has gone in accordance with the decree Of
Him Who does all things sisely. While we mourn his
loss, for We know not nov who 6 Shis place, may
not hope and On61enty trust that the OF every
caVAryman Of Northern VirgipiI will be nerved with
fresh strength 60 AVengs the death Of their great ard
beloved leader.
Even 10 the land Of bis enemies when they hear Of
bis death, If they have aught 6f neroS lei IL .AeI
dspgSv,d n4:-r3s, they s accord lin the possession
Of the highest courage and the mos. unse6sh devotion
| 90 the cause in which he has saer6cei his life.
General Stuart EAJ a native OF Patrick county, IA,
and the son Of tie late Archibald Stuart, who for many
years held leading position 10 Virginia, aud represent
ed the PArck district for several terms in the United
S Ates Corgress His mother, We learn, Is still alive
aud to-day is suffering the grief which only widowed
mother feels at the death Of favorts son.
A. az early age he showed preference for the pro-
fession of arms. Having received the appointment Of
cadet he entered the Military Academy of West Point
in the year 1850. Among his contemporaries at that
Institution were Generals Ambrose p Hill, Henry Heth
George b. Quart, Beverly H. Robinson, GeOrg,
Evans, s,th u. Barton, Alfred Cumming and Thcs,
s. Rect OF the Confederate army, and Burnside Viele
Wilcox, Cogswe and others Of greater or less repue
or disrepute in the Yankee army. Among his immS-
date classmates were Generals John Peg am George w
Gusts Lee aid John Vlnepigue.
Ia he Unite States army, the highest rank attained
BY him vas that Of First Lieutenant bu this was in
the First Cavalry regiment noted for its officers Of
which the Yankee General Sumner Was Colonel our
oNn General JOfeph Z. Johnston Lieutenant Colonel
Our eOtsuporayy of the Southern illustrated News,
Ia biographical sketch Of Gen. Stuart, published in
that journal in Sept 1852 very justly remarks shat the
operations Of the Old Federsl cavalry were conducted
mostly upon the distant frontier far from the public
eye and from the observation Of newspaper CORES
rondentq, and thus many deeds Of grea. dariog and
high emprise wen. unchrOacled, which would have es
,ablished reputation for their actors had they been
rarslced upOn theatre nearer to civil 1ation and
journalism Toe heroes that lived before Agamemuon,
We are told passed away without recognition because
they bad post to celebrate h,ir schievemens and
the dAshng Dragons who swept the mlrauding Indians
before them on the praries of Nebraska and through
the dsfles Of New Mex co, had small chance of sscrr
ing The applause Of their countrymen ia the Atlantic
Safes because that convenient historian OF everyday
life the newspaper reporter, was not at hand to write
down their exploits. The Slna Fs Gdzshs was the
sole medium Of informing the world what going on
in those Western solitudes, and the staff of this
journal notin the most eciensats Of organization.
1t Wild e that Free dash ng career ia the saddle
the boundess psmpas Of tie interior with the blue
heavens above and tho bu blowy expanse of Verdurs
around, varied Only by the change of bivouse, or a
rough hand to hard encounter with the Sioux or Ca =
manches ard rewarded, now and then, by glmpses Of
the silver peaks Of tie Rocky Mountains and the exhl
srat;On and JOY and danger Gift vel suited to the
Temperament: Of young uAr WhS rode with the bold
est Of his comrades aud fought with the rcest Of his
foes There doubtless file in the pgeon-ho,es Of
the War Department at Washington official reports of
many encounters With the savage, recording in curt,
dry, cold enterprises which, in the glowing mar
ratiVe Of Walker Scott an Alexandra Dumas would
vie in interest with the stories Of chiVay 0ne Of these
only, in which Lieut. Stuart bore art, has been re-
corded in our newspapers bu the account as short
and unsatisfactory possible. o. the 20:b July 1857,
a. time Whel we we're absorbed with the Atlantic tel
egraph ard other exciting matters Of the piping times
of peace O9One Sumner encountered force of three
N9eeS VI Tue NnSgenIe bIloe otIOnSy pOsNu
upon Solomons Fork OF the Kansas river, and, after
sharp struggle, pu them 70 ght in great disOrdss In
this combat Lieut. Sulrs was severely wounded"
At the first outbreak of the war General Stuart
promptly resigned his commission, aud offered bis
sword to Virginia and the South and from that day to
this few have attracted 80 much of public interest and
expectation.
With bis rapid rise from cOlOnecy 10 the command
general OF cavalry, cue readers are familiar. Perhaps
the most striking and successful OF all his expeditions
the Panuuksy raid through NsCllIans lines, in
which but one man, the gallant Captlia Latane of
Essex lost and the descent upon Catlets Station