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Cavalryman of the Lost Cause
Jeffry D. Wert
A Biography of J. E. B. Stuart
Simon & Schuster
October 2008
On Sale: September 23, 2008
512 pages
ISBN: 0743278194
EAN: 9780743278195
Hardcover
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Cavalryman of the Lost Cause is the first major biography
in decades of the famous Confederate general J. E. B.
Stuart. Based on research in manuscript collections,
personal memoirs and reminiscences, and regimental
histories, this comprehensive volume reflects outstanding
Civil War scholarship.
James Ewell Brown Stuart was the premier cavalry commander
of the Confederacy. He gained a reputation for daring early
in the war when he rode around the Union army in the
Peninsula Campaign, providing valuable intelligence to
General Robert E. Lee at the expense of Union commander
George B. McClellan. Stuart has long been controversial
because of his performance in the critical Gettysburg
Campaign, where he was out of touch with Lee for several
days; this left Lee uncertain about the size and movement
of the Union army, information that would prove decisive
when the battle began. In an engagement with the cavalry of
Union general Philip Sheridan in spring 1864, Stuart was
killed. He was only thirty-one. Jeffry D. Wert provides new details about Stuart's
childhood and youth, and he draws on letters between Stuart
and his wife, Flora, to show us the man as he was: eager
for glory, daring sometimes to the point of recklessness,
but a devoted and loving husband and father. Stuart has
long been regarded as the finest Confederate cavalryman and
one of the best this country has ever produced. Wert shows
how Stuart's friendship with Stonewall Jackson and his
relationship with Lee were crucial; at the same time
Stuart's relationships with his subordinates were
complicated and sometimes troubled. Cavalryman of the Lost Cause is a riveting biography of a
towering figure of the Civil War, a fascinating and
colorful work by one of our finest Civil War historians.
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