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Historical person
1833–1864
James Ewell Brown Stuart graduated from West Point and served in the United States Army before joining Virginia and the Confederacy in 1861. He commanded cavalry in the Army of Northern Virginia and became known for reconnaissance, raids and a flamboyant public image.
Stuart was mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern in May 1864. Historical fiction often presents him as a charismatic cavalry leader; documented campaigns should be distinguished from invented intimacy with fictional subordinates.
Series
The Last Cavaliers follows Yancey and Clay Tremayne through the opening and later campaigns of the American Civil War. Military education, cavalry service and loyalties to commanders such as Stonewall Jackson, J. E. B. Stuart and Robert E. Lee place the brothers within the Confederacy’s rise and defeat.…
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