The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-03
The Death OF Jeb Stuart.
Prom the Richmond Examiner, May Is.

No incident of mortality, since the fall
of the great jackson, has occasioned more
painful regret than this. Major General
J. E B Stuart, the model of Virginia
cavaliers and dashing chieftan, whose
name was terror to the enemy, and IA
miliar as household in two continents, is
dead, struck down by bullet from the
dastardly foe, and the whole confederacy
mourns him. He breathed out his gallant
spirit resignedly, and in the full possession
of all his remarkable faculties of mind
and body, at twenty-five minutes to eight
O'Clock Thursday night, at the residence
of DIR. Brewer, relative, on Grace
street, in the presence of Drs. Brewer,
Garrett, Gibson and FOntaine of the Gen
erals staff, Rev. Messrs. Peterkin and
Keppler, and circle of sorrow-stricken
comrades and friends.
We learn from the physicians in attend
ance upon the General, that his condition
during the day was very changeable, with
occasional delirium, and other unmistak-
able symptoms of speedy dissolution. In
the moments of delirium the Generals
mind wandered, and like the immortal
jackson, (whose spirit, we trust, his has join
ed,) in the lapse Of reason his faculties
were busted with the details of his COM
mand. He reviewed, in broken sentences,
all his glorious campaigns around McClel-
lan's rear on the Peninsula, beyond the
Potomac, and upon the Rapidan, quoting
froms his orders and issuing new ones to
his couriers, with a last injunction to
tGmake haste"
About noon, Thursday, President Davis
visited his bedside, and spent some fifteen
minutes in the dying chamber of his ia
vorite chieftain. The President, taking
his hand, said, General, how do you
feel?" He replied, "Easy, but willing to
! die if God and my country think have
| fulfilled my destiny and done my duty
| AS evening approached the Generals de-
| lirium increased, and his mind again wan
dered to the battle fields over which he
had fought, then off to wife and children,
then off again to the front. A telegraphic
message had been sent for his wife, who
was in the country, with the injunction to
make all haste, as the General was dan
eerously wounded. Some thoughtless,
but unauthorized person, thinking proba-
bly to spare his wife pain, altered the dis
patch to "slightly wounded" and it was
thus she received it, and did not make
that haste which she otherwise would have
done to reach his side.
As evening wore on, the paroxysnas OF
pain increased and modification set in ra-
pidly. Though suffering the greatest ago
nv at times. the General was calm and ap-
piled to the wound, with his own hand,
the ice intended to relieve the pain.
He asked DR.. Brewer how long he
thought he could live, and whether it was
possible for him to survive through the
night. The Doctor knowing he did not
desire to be buoyed by false hopes, told
him frankly that death, the last enemy,
was rapidly approaching. The General
nodded and said, " I am resigned, it it be
Gods will but would like to live to see
my wife. But Gods will be DONE" Sew
eral times he reused up and asked if she
had come.
To the Doctor, who sat holding his
wrist, and counting tho f1eeting, weaken
ing pulse, he remarked, "Doctor, sup
pose am going fast now. 1t will soon be
over. But Gods will be done. / hope I
| have fulfilled my destiny to my country
and my duty to my God" ,sa
4 At half-past seven O'Clock it was evident
to the physicians that death was setting
! its clammy seal upon the brave. open
brow Of the General, and told him So
asked if he had any last message to give.
4 The General with mind perfectly clear
/ and possessed, then made disposition Of
his staff and personal effects To Mrs.
Cen r E. Lee be directed that the gol-
den snurs be given as dying memento Of
his love and esteem of her husband. To
4 his staff officers he gave his horses. So
particular was he in small things, even in
4 the dying hour, that he emphatlcally ex-