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- When told of Stuart’s fate, Robert E. Lee remarked to a group of officers: “Gentlemen, we have very bad news. General Stuart has been mortally wounded.” Pausing to gain control of his emotions, Lee added, with emphasis, “He never brought me a piece of false information.”
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Jun 12, 2006 · It was this gift that Robert E. Lee emphasized in his famous lament that Stuart ‘never brought me a piece of false information.’ This article written by Edward G. Longacre and originally appeared in the June 2004 issue of Civil War Times magazine.
- Edward G. Longacre
- Early Life
- U.S. Military Academy Cadet
- U.S. Army Officer
- John Brown’s Raid
- Civil War
James Ewell Brown Stuart (aka Jeb Stuart) was born on February 6, 1833, at Laurel Hill Farm, his family’s plantation, in Patrick County, Virginia. He was the eighth of eleven children of Archibald Stuart and Elizabeth Letcher Pannill Stuart. Stuart’s great-grandfather, Major Alexander Stuart, was a regimental commander in the Revolutionary War, and...
In 1850, United States Congressman Thomas Hamlet Averett nominated Stuart for an appointment to the United States Military Academy. Stuart graduated thirteenth in his class of forty-six cadets in 1854. While attending West Point, Stuart became friends with the academy supervisor and future Confederate army commander, Robert E. Lee.
After graduating from West Point, officials brevetted Stuart as a second lieutenant and assigned him to the Regiment of Mounted Rifles. Stationed in Texas, he campaigned against the Apache Indians. In 1855, he transferred to the newly formed 1st Cavalry at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Territory. Shortly after his transfer, Stuart met and married Flora ...
In 1859, while visiting Washington, DC., Stuart learned of John Brown’s Raidon the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. He immediately volunteered to serve as Colonel Robert E. Lee’s aide-de-camp and accompanied Lee to Harpers Ferry to suppress Brown’s insurgents. Colonel Lee sent Stuart under a flag of truce to negotiate a surrender with Br...
Confederate Officer
Promoted to captain on April 22, 1861, Stuart resigned his commission in the United States Army in early May after his home state of Virginia seceded from the Union on April 17, 1861. On May 10, Virginia officials commissioned Stuart as a lieutenant colonel of the Virginia Infantry in the Confederate Army and assigned him to serve under Colonel Thomas J. Jackson in General Joseph Johnston‘s Army of the Shenandoah. On July 4, 1861, Jackson placed Stuart in command of the 1st Virginia Cavalry,...
First Battle of Bull Run
Stuart played a prominent role in enabling Johnston’s army to move from the Shenandoah Valley to the vicinity of Manassas in time to reinforce General P. G. T. Beauregard‘s Army of the Potomac at the First Battle of Bull Run(July 21, 1861). Stuart led his regiment during the Confederate victory and the pursuit of the retreating Federals. After the battle, he commanded the army’s outposts along the upper Potomac River until given command of a full cavalry brigade. Confederate officials promote...
Peninsula Campaign
In 1862, authorities reassigned Stuart to support Johnston’s troops, as federal forces threatened the Confederate capital at Richmond during Major General George B. McClellan‘s Peninsula Campaign. On June 12, Stuart began his famous “Ride around McClellan.” Over the course of three days, he led 1,200 troopers completely around McClellan’s Army of the Potomacon the Virginia Peninsula. Upon his return, he provided strategic information that helped General Robert E. Lee, who had replaced the wou...
- Harry Searles
Lee mourned his death, remembering Stuart as one who "never brought me a piece of false information." [3] He was 31 years old. J.E.B. Stuart was buried in Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery. He was survived by his wife, Flora Cooke Stuart, and his children, J.E.B. Stuart Jr., and Virginia Pelham Stuart.
When General Lee received the news of the death of Jeb Stuart, his good friend and most trusted cavalry commander, he sorrowfully noted, "Stuart had never brought me a piece of false information,” and that “I can hardly think of him without weeping."
Jun 14, 2019 · Lee summed up his career brilliantly when he said, ‘He never brought me a piece of false information.’ It doesn’t get any better than that for an intelligence officer!” —Frank O’Reilly “ Stuart had no equal in gaining intelligence information from the enemy while screening his own army’s movements.” —Peter S. Carmichael
Nov 9, 2009 · Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images. James Ewell Brown “Jeb” Stuart (1833-1864) was a U.S. Army officer and later a major general and cavalry commander for the Confederate ...
JEB Stuart had no more than 4,500 men. Six miles from Richmond, he moved to block Sheridan at Yellow Tavern, where blue and grey met in battle on 11 May 1864. Stuart took his place at the van of his army—where he promised he would always be. “General, I believe you love bullets,” said his bugler.
