Confederate Cavalry General J.E.B. Stuart is mortally wounded

[Draggingtree]

May 11, 1864:

Confederate Cavalry General J.E.B. Stuart is mortally wounded

 

A dismounted Union trooper fatally wounds J.E.B. Stuart, one of the most colorful generals of the South, at the Battle of Yellow Tavern, just six miles north of Richmond, Virginia. The 31-year-old Stuart died the next day.

During the 1864 spring campaign in Virginia, Union General Ulysses S. Grant applied constant pressure on Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. In early May, the two armies clashed at the Wilderness and again at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, as they lurched southward toward Richmond. Meanwhile, Grant sent General Phil Sheridan and his cavalry on a raid deep behind Confederate lines

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[NCTexan]

Thanks for posting this...

 

General Stuart and his cavalry were the equivalent of Lee's armed surveillance drones of the day.