J.E.B. Stuart

By corey_astroboy

  • birth

    James Ewell Brown Stuart is born at Laurel Hill in Patrick County, Virginia.

  • West Point

    J. E. B. Stuart graduates from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, finishing thirteenth in his class of forty-six.

  • Second Lieutenant

    After duty in Texas, where he fought Apache Indians, J. E. B. Stuart is commissioned a second lieutenant.

  • Kansas frontier

    J. E. B. Stuart is transferred to the new 1st United States Cavalry, then headquartered at Fort Leavenworth on the Kansas frontier.

  • Marriage

    -J. E. B. Stuart marries Flora Cooke, the daughter of Colonel Philip St. George Cooke, at Fort Riley, Kansas.

  • Promotion

    J. E. B. Stuart is promoted to first lieutenant.

  • Wounded in battle

    J. E. B. Stuart is wounded in a skirmish with the Cheyenne Indians on the Solomon River.

  • Wounded in battle

    J. E. B. Stuart is wounded in a skirmish with the Cheyenne Indians on the Solomon River.

  • negotiations

    Robert E. Lee sends J. E. B. Stuart into the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, under a flag of truce, to negotiate the surrender of the abolitionist John Brown and his followers.

  • Promotion

    • J. E. B. Stuart is promoted to captain.

  • Resignation

    J. E. B. Stuart resigns from the United States Army shortly after Virginia's secession and accepts a commission as colonel in the Confederate army. He is assigned to the 1st Virginia Cavalry.

  • First Battle of Manassas

    After executing a brilliant screening operation that allowed Confederate forces in the Shenandoah Valley to move east, J. E. B. Stuart participates in the First Battle of Manassas. He leads a successful cavalry charge that helps to rout the Union army.

  • Promotion

    J. E. B. Stuart is promoted to brigadier general.

  • Ride around McClellan

    Confederate general J. E. B. Stuart launches his famous "Ride around McClellan," leaving Richmond with 1,200 troopers and circling the Union Army of the Potomac in a three-day raid that supplies Robert E. Lee with critical intelligence.

  • Promotion

    J. E. B. Stuart is promoted to major general.

  • Raid on John Pope's headquarters

    During the Second Manassas Campaign, J. E. B. Stuart leads a raid into Union general John Pope's headquarters, collecting not only valuable materiel and intelligence, but also capturing Pope's dress uniform from the general's tent.

  • McClellan's Army of the Potomac

    For the second time in a year, J. E. B. Stuart rides around Union general George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac, causing U.S. president Abraham Lincoln to remark, "When I was a boy we used to play a game—three times around and out. Stuart has been around him twice. If he goes around him once more, McClellan will be out."

  • defeat of Joseph Hooker's forces.

    J. E. B. Stuart serves brilliantly as the eyes and ears of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army at the Battle of Chancellorsville. When Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson and A. P. Hill are both wounded, he command's Jackson's corps on the third day, helping to defeat Joseph Hooker's forces.

  • Cavalry battle at Brandy Station

    J. E. B. Stuart's second grand review and mock cavalry battle at Brandy Station is coincidentally followed the next day by a Union cavalry attack. In the largest cavalry battle of the war, Stuart's cavalrymen rally to fight off the Union troopers.

  • captureof union supply wagons

    After capturing 125 Union supply wagons near Rockville, Maryland, J. E. B. Stuart chooses to bring them into the Confederate lines rather than burn them. This slows him down and hampers his important mission of gathering intelligence on the Union army during Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North.

  • Saving Richmond

    J. E. B. Stuart's Confederate cavalry corps is vital in saving Richmond by holding Spotsylvania Court House against Union general Ulysses S. Grant's flanking maneuver following the Battle of the Wilderness.

  • Union Calvary Intercept

    J. E. B. Stuart intercepts Union cavalry under Philip H. Sheridan at Yellow Tavern, six miles north of Richmond. Stuart is mortally wounded during the three-hour fight.

  • Death

    After being wounded at the Battle of Yellow Tavern a day earlier, J. E. B. Stuart dies in Richmond at the home of his brother-in-law, Dr. Charles Brewer. His wife, Flora Stuart, misses being at his bedside by three hours.

  • Funeral

    J. E. B. Stuart is buried at Hollywood Cemetery from St. James' Episcopal Church where the funeral service was performed by Joshua Peterkin, Pastor of St. James' Church. Among the pall bearers are John Winder, Braxton Bragg, Joseph R. Anderson, George W. Randolph, and Commodore Forrest.