General J.E.B Stuart
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REPORT
OF HIS CAVALRY EXPEDITION INTO PENNSYLVANIA IN OCTOBER, 1862 BY MAJOR
GENERAL J.E.B. STUART
"The following report, which was printed
from an original MS. in General Stuart's own handwriting, does not appear
in the Army of Northern Virginia reports, published by the Confederate
Congress, and has, we believe, never been in print. Like everything
from the great cavalry chieftain, it will attract attention and be read
with interest."(sic)...*
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CAVALRY
OPERATIONS IN MAY, 1863 *REPORT OF GENERAL J.E.B. STUART OF WILDERNESS
AND CHANCELLORSVILLE
"General- In anticipation of the detailed
reports,
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I have the honor to submit the following
sketch of the operations of the cavalry immediately preceding and during
the battles of the Wilderness and Chancellorsville.
The enemy had more than a week previously" (sic)....*
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DEATH
OF MAJOR Gen J.E.B STUART BY EDITORIAL STAFF-S.H.
SOCIETY PAPERS"
"The circumstances attending the wounding and
death of the "Flower of Cavaliers"
(General J.E.B Stuart) ought to be put in permanent
form for the use of the future historian, for no history of the Army of
Northern Virginia would be complete which did not give large space to the
chivalric deeds of this great soldier."(sic)....*
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WOUNDING
AND DEATH OF J.E.B.SUART - ERRORS CORRECTED:
The following comes from a source entitled
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to the very highest consideration,
and will be read with mournful interest by all who feel- and who does not?-an
interest in the minutest details concerning the career and death of our
"Flower of Cavaliers"(sic)....*
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STUART'S
RIDE AND DEATH OF CAPT. LATANE BY HON. WILLIAM CAMPBELL, CO. F, 9TH, VIR
CAVALRY.
"At
your request, I undertake, after an intervention of more than thirty-four
years, to write (from memory, my recollections of Stuart's famous ride
around McClellan's army in the early summer of 1862; and also thedeath
of Captain William Latane, of the Essex Light Dragoons, who fell in a charge
made by his squadron upon the enemy near the "Old Church," in Hanover country,
Va"(sic)....*
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