Description
Now in paperback, this major biography of J.E.B. Stuart--the first in two decades--uses newly available documents to draw the fullest, most accurate portrait of the legendary Confederate cavalry commander ever published.
- Major figure of American history: James Ewell Brown Stuart was the South's most successful and most colorful cavalry commander during the Civil War. Like many who die young (Stuart was thirty-one when he succumbed to combat wounds), he has been romanticized and popular- ized. One of the best-known figures of the Civil War, J.E.B. Stuart is almost as important a figure in the Confederate pantheon as Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. - Most comprehensive biography to date: Cavalryman of the Lost Cause is based on manuscripts and unpublished letters as well as the latest Civil War scholarship. Stuart's childhood and family are scrutinized, as is his service in Kansas and on the frontier before the Civil War. The research in this biography makes it the authoritative work.
Author: Jeffry D. Wert
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 09/22/2009
Pages: 520
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.62w x 1.26d
ISBN13: 9780743278249
ISBN10: 0743278240
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Military
- History | United States | Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- History | Military | United States
- Major figure of American history: James Ewell Brown Stuart was the South's most successful and most colorful cavalry commander during the Civil War. Like many who die young (Stuart was thirty-one when he succumbed to combat wounds), he has been romanticized and popular- ized. One of the best-known figures of the Civil War, J.E.B. Stuart is almost as important a figure in the Confederate pantheon as Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. - Most comprehensive biography to date: Cavalryman of the Lost Cause is based on manuscripts and unpublished letters as well as the latest Civil War scholarship. Stuart's childhood and family are scrutinized, as is his service in Kansas and on the frontier before the Civil War. The research in this biography makes it the authoritative work.
Author: Jeffry D. Wert
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 09/22/2009
Pages: 520
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.62w x 1.26d
ISBN13: 9780743278249
ISBN10: 0743278240
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Military
- History | United States | Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- History | Military | United States
About the Author
Jeffry D. Wert is the author of seven previous books on Civil War topics, most recently The Sword of Lincoln. He lives in Centre Hall, Pennsylvania, about an hour from the battlefield at Gettysburg.