Cavalryman of the Lost Cause

Major figure of American history: James Ewell Brown Stuart was the South’s most successful and most colorful cavalry commander during the Civil War.

Like many who die young (Stuart was thirty-one when he succumbed to combat wounds), he has been romanticized and popularized.

One of the best-known figures of the Civil War, J.E.B. Stuart is almost as important a figure in the Confederate pantheon as Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.>Voir plus