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5/11/2006, 05:53 AM
May 11, 1864 Confederate Cavalry General J.E.B. Stuart is mortally wounded
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142 years ago in the last full year of the Civil War/WBTS a dismounted Federal trooper fatally wounds James Ewell Brown Stuart, one of the most colorful Cornfederate generals, at the Battle of Yellow Tavern, just six miles north of Richmond. Stuart died the next day.
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During the 1864 spring campaign in Virginia, General Ulysses S. Grant applied constant pressure on Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. In early May, the two armies clashed in the Wilderness and again at Spotsylvania Court House as they lurched southward toward Richmond.
Meanwhile, Grant sent General Phil Sheridan and his cavalry on a raid deep behind Confederate lines. The plan was to cut Lee's supply line and thus force him out of his defensive trenches in retreat.
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Stuart's nemesis Phil Sheridan. Note: soldiers in the Civil War often wore civilian hats with their uniforms as Sheridan is seen doing here
Sheridan's troops wreaked havoc on the Rebel rear as they tore up railroad tracks, destroyed supply depots, and held off the Confederate cavalry in several engagements, including the Battle of Yellow Tavern.
Although Sheridan's Federal troops held the field at the end of the day, his forces were stretched thin. Richmond could be taken, Sheridan wrote later, but it could not be held. He began to withdraw back to the north.
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Stuart's personal items you can view now in the collection of the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond
The death of Stuart was a serious blow to Lee. He was a great cavalry leader, and his leadership was part of the reason the Confederates had a superior cavalry force in Virginia during most of the war.
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Stuart is buried in Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery
Yet Stuart was not without his faults: He had been surprised by a Federal attack at the Battle of Brandy Station in 1863, and failed to provide Lee with crucial information at Gettysburg. Stuart's death, like "Stonewall" Jackson's the year before, seriously affected Lee's operations.
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At the moment of Stuart's mortal wounding
South Carolinian Lieutenant General Wade Hampton inherited overall command of Confederate cavalry in the eastern theater in the wake of Stuart's death. Hampton was a competent cavalry leader, survived the war and eventually became governor of SC and a two-term US Senator.
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Wade Hampton
As an aside, Hampton and his "Redshirts" (SC Confederate vets who waved their "bloody shirts" as a sign of their moral authority to lead) successfully fought Federal authority in SC during the "reconstruction" period and he presided over political affairs in post-reconstruction SC until his death by natural causes in 1902.
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142 years ago in the last full year of the Civil War/WBTS a dismounted Federal trooper fatally wounds James Ewell Brown Stuart, one of the most colorful Cornfederate generals, at the Battle of Yellow Tavern, just six miles north of Richmond. Stuart died the next day.
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http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/2100/zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz4.gif (http://imageshack.us)
During the 1864 spring campaign in Virginia, General Ulysses S. Grant applied constant pressure on Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. In early May, the two armies clashed in the Wilderness and again at Spotsylvania Court House as they lurched southward toward Richmond.
Meanwhile, Grant sent General Phil Sheridan and his cavalry on a raid deep behind Confederate lines. The plan was to cut Lee's supply line and thus force him out of his defensive trenches in retreat.
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/6973/zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz16.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Stuart's nemesis Phil Sheridan. Note: soldiers in the Civil War often wore civilian hats with their uniforms as Sheridan is seen doing here
Sheridan's troops wreaked havoc on the Rebel rear as they tore up railroad tracks, destroyed supply depots, and held off the Confederate cavalry in several engagements, including the Battle of Yellow Tavern.
Although Sheridan's Federal troops held the field at the end of the day, his forces were stretched thin. Richmond could be taken, Sheridan wrote later, but it could not be held. He began to withdraw back to the north.
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/5664/zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz30.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Stuart's personal items you can view now in the collection of the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond
The death of Stuart was a serious blow to Lee. He was a great cavalry leader, and his leadership was part of the reason the Confederates had a superior cavalry force in Virginia during most of the war.
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/6913/zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz44.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Stuart is buried in Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery
Yet Stuart was not without his faults: He had been surprised by a Federal attack at the Battle of Brandy Station in 1863, and failed to provide Lee with crucial information at Gettysburg. Stuart's death, like "Stonewall" Jackson's the year before, seriously affected Lee's operations.
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/1345/zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz45.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
At the moment of Stuart's mortal wounding
South Carolinian Lieutenant General Wade Hampton inherited overall command of Confederate cavalry in the eastern theater in the wake of Stuart's death. Hampton was a competent cavalry leader, survived the war and eventually became governor of SC and a two-term US Senator.
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/2443/zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Wade Hampton
As an aside, Hampton and his "Redshirts" (SC Confederate vets who waved their "bloody shirts" as a sign of their moral authority to lead) successfully fought Federal authority in SC during the "reconstruction" period and he presided over political affairs in post-reconstruction SC until his death by natural causes in 1902.
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