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Flora (search for this): chapter 49
gh his utter carelessness as to the impression he produced subjected him to many calumnies, it is here placed on record, by one who knew his private life thoroughly, and was with him day and night for years, that he was, in morals, among the purest of men — a faithful husband, absolutely without vices of any description, and, if not demonstrative — in his religious views, an earnest and exemplary Christian. His love for his wife was deep and devoted; and on the death of his little daughter, Flora, he said to me, with tears in his eyes: I shall never get over it. When one day some person in my presence indulged in sneers at the expense of preachers, supposing that the roystering young commander would echo them, Stuart said, coldly: I regard the Christian ministry as the noblest work in which any human being can engage. He never touched spirits in any form during his whole life, having promised his mother, he told me, that he would not; did not use tobacco even; never uttered anyt
Stonewall Jackson (search for this): chapter 49
eral Lee. His rank, in the estimation of General Jackson, was as high. This will be understood frlace in May, 1863, at Chancellorsville. When Jackson was disabled, and Stuart assumed command, and degree akin to that produced by the death of Jackson. The Southern people, indeed, had become acco couple together the three great names, Lee, Jackson, and Stuart, valuing each for his peculiar qu to himself both the love and respect of men. Jackson was the infantry leader, the right arm to exehe battle was going, his answer was: Tell him Jackson has not advanced, but I have, and that I am gbut he even made merry with so great a man as Jackson, or Old Stonewall, as he affectionately stylerament, for Stuart was the most impulsive and Jackson the most reserved and reticent of men. But ittuall admiration and confidence united them. Jackson would visit Stuart, and hold long confidentiaprecisely fill the vacuum. With the death of Jackson and Stuart, in May, 1863, and May, 1864, some
Jeb (search for this): chapter 49
General Stuart in camp and field. Colonel John Esten Cooke. The famous General Jeb Stuart was, perhaps, the most picturesque figure moving on the great arena of the late civil war. Young, gay, gallant; wearing a uniform brilliant with gold braid, golden spurs, and a hat looped up with a golden star and decorated with a black plume; going on marches at the head of his column with his banjo-player gayly thrumming behind him; leading his troops to battle with a camp song on his lips; here to-day and away to-morrow, raiding, fighting, laughing, dancing, and as famous for his gallantry toward women as for his reckless courage. Stuart was in every particular a singular and striking human being, drawing to himself the strongest public interest both as a man and a soldier. Of his military ability as a cavalry leader, General Sedgwick probably summed up the general opinion when he said: Stuart is the best cavalryman ever foaled in North America. Of his courage, devotion, and many lova
Cromwell (search for this): chapter 49
outhern army; in character, simple, pure, patient, binding to himself both the love and respect of men. Jackson was the infantry leader, the right arm to execute what Lee conceived; in person not graceful, in manner silent, reserved, and often abrupt; cautious in council, but rapid and terrible in execution, going to battle with muttered prayers on his lips, leaving all to Providence, but striking with all the power of his arm to do his own part, and in many ways resembling the Ironsides of Cromwell. Stuart, on the contrary, was the cavalier, essentially belonging to the class of men who followed the fortunes of Charles I.-ardent, impetuous, brimming over with the wine of life and youth, with the headlong courage of a high-spirited boy, fond of bright colors, of rippling flags, of martial music, and the clash of sabres; in all the warp and woof his character an embodiment of the best traits of the English cavaliers — not of their bad traits. Although his utter carelessness as to the
Napoleon (search for this): chapter 49
orps on the next morning fully justified this confidence. His employment of artillery in mass on the Federal left, went far to decide this critical action. At the battle of Fredericksburg, in the preceding December, the same masterly handling of his guns had protected Jackson's right toward the Massaponnax, which was the real key of the battle; and in these two great actions, as on the left at Sharpsburg, Stuart exhibited a genius for the management of artillery which would have delighted Napoleon. In the operations of 1863, culminating at Gettysburg, he was charged with misconception or disobedience of orders in separating himself from the main column, although he protested to me, with the utmost earnestness and feeling, that he had been guilty of neither. Then the hurried and adventurous scenes followed, when General Lee attempted, in October, 1863, to cut off General Meade at Manassas, when the cavalry was the only arm which effected anything, and General Kilpatrick was nearly c
John Esten Cooke (search for this): chapter 49
General Stuart in camp and field. Colonel John Esten Cooke. The famous General Jeb Stuart was, perhaps, the most picturesque figure moving on the great arena of the late civil war. Young, gay, gallant; wearing a uniform brilliant with gold braid, golden spurs, and a hat looped up with a golden star and decorated with a black plume; going on marches at the head of his column with his banjo-player gayly thrumming behind him; leading his troops to battle with a camp song on his lips; here to-day and away to-morrow, raiding, fighting, laughing, dancing, and as famous for his gallantry toward women as for his reckless courage. Stuart was in every particular a singular and striking human being, drawing to himself the strongest public interest both as a man and a soldier. Of his military ability as a cavalry leader, General Sedgwick probably summed up the general opinion when he said: Stuart is the best cavalryman ever foaled in North America. Of his courage, devotion, and many lovab
J. E. B. Stuart (search for this): chapter 49
try toward women as for his reckless courage. Stuart was in every particular a singular and strikinncellorsville. When Jackson was disabled, and Stuart assumed command, and sent to ascertain Jackson gravity and prayers of their wounded leader. Stuart led Jackson's Corps against General Hooker's i and although Lee would not officially censure Stuart, it seems plain that, right or wrong, he regarivouac, on the march, and off duty everywhere, Stuart was a striking personage. Some human beings aening to his views with evident attention; and Stuart exhibited, on the intelligence of this great rrounded by his mirthful young staff officers, Stuart passed the long months of the winter succeedin Jesting, indeed, seemed to be a necessity of Stuart's nature. Mirth and humor burst forth from tharacter of the man. General Lee knew well that Stuart would never allow indolence or procrastinationonage whose portrait is traced. The traits of Stuart's character were as obvious as those of his pe[39 more...]
1859 AD (search for this): chapter 49
of Patrick county, Virginia, and came of a family of high social position and some distinction. Having graduated at West Point, he served for some years as a lieutenant in the United States army, and when it was obvious that Virginia would secede, he resigned his commission and came to his native State, where he was put in command of the First Regiment of Cavalry,operating on the Upper Potomac. He had been prominent, at this time, in only one scene attracting public attention. This was in 1859, at Harper's Ferry, where he was directed by General, then Colonel, R. E. Lee to summon John Brown to surrender. He recognized Brown, then passing as Captain Smith, as soon as the engine-house door was half opened, as an old acquaintance in Kansas, and advised him to surrender, which Brown declined doing, adding, You know, lieutenant, we are not afraid of bullets, when Stuart stepped aside, and the attack and capture of the old marauder followed. In a sketch so limited as the present, it
October, 1863 AD (search for this): chapter 49
e two great actions, as on the left at Sharpsburg, Stuart exhibited a genius for the management of artillery which would have delighted Napoleon. In the operations of 1863, culminating at Gettysburg, he was charged with misconception or disobedience of orders in separating himself from the main column, although he protested to me, with the utmost earnestness and feeling, that he had been guilty of neither. Then the hurried and adventurous scenes followed, when General Lee attempted, in October, 1863, to cut off General Meade at Manassas, when the cavalry was the only arm which effected anything, and General Kilpatrick was nearly crushed near Bucklands — the brief campaign of Mine Run-and the furious wrestle between Lee and Grant in the Wilderness, in May, 1864. When General Grant moved toward Spottsylvania Court-House, it was Stuart who, according to Northern historians, so obstructed the roads as to enable General Lee to interpose his army at this important point. Had this not be
1862 AD (search for this): chapter 49
jor general, and from that time, to his death, he remained Chief of Cavalry of General Lee's army. When the Confederate forces advanced northward in the summer of 1862, Stuart's cavalry accompanied the column, and took part in all the important operations of that year — on the Rapidan, the Rappahannock, the Second Manassas, Sharphe Wilderness! He had the genius to understand what an enemy ought to, and probably would do — in proof of which I remember that he said to me, in the winter of 1862: The next battle will be near Chancellorsville, where it accordingly took place, nearly six months afterward; but he was as great as an executive officer as in couh we associate them, and the writer of these pages returns in memory, when thinking of Stuart, more especially to his quarters near Fredericksburg in the winter of 1862, which he humorously styled Camp no camp. Here, with his tent pitched under shelter of a pine thicket, and his horses picketed near — for he believed that exposur<
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