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    J. E. B. Stuart

    Confederate cavalry general

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  1. Nov 9, 2009 · J.E.B. Stuart: Early Life and Education. Stuart was born in Patrick County, Virginia, on February 6, 1833. He left home at the age of 12 and spent three years in school in Wytheville,...

  2. He obtained an appointment in 1850 to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, from Representative Thomas Hamlet Averett, the man who had defeated his father in the 1848 election. [10] Stuart was a popular student and was happy at the Academy.

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  4. Feb 6, 2013 · My Library. Civil War | Biography. J. E. B. Stuart. Title Major General. War & Affiliation Civil War / Confederate. Date of Birth - Death February 6, 1833 – May 12, 1864. James Ewell Brown Stuart, known to friends and fellow servicemen as Jeb, came from an acclaimed military lineage.

  5. May 9, 2024 · Jeb Stuart (born Feb. 6, 1833, Patrick county, Va., U.S.—died May 12, 1864, Yellow Tavern, near Richmond, Va.) was a Confederate cavalry officer whose reports of enemy troop movements were of particular value to the Southern command during the American Civil War (1861–65).

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  6. Jan 12, 2024 · Career Summary. He was a Captain (USA) and Major General (CSA). Jeb Stuart — Summary of His Life and Accomplishments for APUSH. J. E. B. Stuart was the eighth of eleven children of Archibald Stuart and Elizabeth Letcher Pannill Stuart.

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  7. Dec 22, 2021 · Stuart graduated from the United Sates Military Academy at West Point, New York, ranking thirteenth of forty-six in the class of 1854. His classmates included fellow Virginians John Pegram and George Washington Custis Lee, both of whom were to become, like Stuart, major generals in the Confederate States Army.

  8. Mar 16, 2024 · Stuarts great-grandfather, Major Alexander Stuart, was a regimental commander in the Revolutionary War, and his father fought in the War of 1812. Stuarts mother schooled her son before having him formally educated by tutors in Wytheville and Danville, Virginia. Between 1848 and 1850, he attended Emory and Henry College in Emory, Virginia.