Stuart's Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign
Author: John Singleton Mosby
Publisher:
Published: 1908
Total Pages: 284
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Plenty of Blame to go Around
Author: Eric J. Wittenberg
Publisher: Savas Beatie
Published: 2006-09-12
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 1611210178
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A welcome new account of Stuart’s fateful ride during the 1863 Pennsylvania campaign . . . well researched, vividly written, and shrewdly argued.” —Mark Grimsley, author of And Keep Moving On June 1863. The Gettysburg Campaign is in its opening hours. Harness jingles and hoofs pound as Confederate cavalryman James Ewell Brown (JEB) Stuart leads his three brigades of veteran troopers on a ride that triggers one of the Civil War’s most bitter and enduring controversies. Instead of finding glory and victory-two objectives with which he was intimately familiar, Stuart reaped stinging criticism and substantial blame for one of the Confederacy’s most stunning and unexpected battlefield defeats. In Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart’s Controversial Ride to Gettysburg, Eric J. Wittenberg and J. David Petruzzi objectively investigate the role Stuart’s horsemen played in the disastrous campaign. It is the first book ever written on this important and endlessly fascinating subject. Did the plumed cavalier disobey General Robert E. Lee’s orders by stripping the army of its “eyes and ears?” Was Stuart to blame for the unexpected combat that broke out at Gettysburg on July 1? Authors Wittenberg and Petruzzi, widely recognized for their study and expertise of Civil War cavalry operations, have drawn upon a massive array of primary sources, many heretofore untapped, to fully explore Stuart’s ride, its consequences, and the intense debate among participants shortly after the battle, through early post-war commentators, and among modern scholars. The result is a richly detailed study jammed with incisive tactical commentary, new perspectives on the strategic role of the Southern cavalry, and fresh insights on every horse engagement, large and small, fought during the campaign.
The Cavalry Battle that Saved the Union
Author: Paul D. Walker
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis battle, pitting two of America's most gifted military heroes against each other, decided the fate of the Civil War.
Stuart's Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign
Author: John Singleton Mosby
Publisher:
Published: 1908
Total Pages: 222
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKStuart's Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign
Author: John Singleton Mosby
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 74
ISBN-13: 9781230273112
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... SAME TO FRENCH AT Habpeb's FERRY The General [Hooker] suggests that you keep the signal officers employed and order them to secure commanding points. HOOKER TO REYNOLDS, Edwabd'b FERRY June 35th, 1863, 13.40 P.m. Your dispatch, 9.45 P.m., received. General Howard has received orders directing him to report to you, and states that he has sent a staff officer to report to you. His headquarters to-night are at Jefferson. In Catoctin Valley near South Mountain. Office Of The Sional Officer, Washington, June 25th, 1803 Signal Officer, Maryland Heights: -- What has become of the immense trains reported from your station as moving through Charlestown to Shepherdstown ? Albert J. Myer. HOOKER TO HANCOCK, THOROUGHFARE GAP June 25th, 1803, 7 A.M. On receipt of this order take up your line of march to Edwards' Ferry. Your best line will be via Sudley Springs and Gum Springs. The last named place you should reach to-night. Office Of The Signal Officer, Washington, June 25th, 1863. Captain L. B. Norton, Chief Signal Officer, Headquarters Army of the Potomac: -- If any considerable portion of the Army of the Potomac is moving north in Maryland, either in the Middletown Valley or east of the Catoctin Ridge, suggest to General Butterfield to keep the crest of the South Mountain and Catoctin Ridge clear of the enemy's scouts and signal officers by scouting parties of our cavalry. Send some of our [signal] officers with the cavalry.1 Albert J. Myer, Colonel and Signal-Officer. 1 WILLIAMS, A. A. G., TO Plbabanton June 25th, 1863, 7.10 P.M. The commanding general directs that you hold your command in readiness to march in the direction of Edwards' Ferry. Hancock will be at Gum Springs to-night. The First, Third and Eleventh corps will cross the river...
Stuart's Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign (Classic Reprint)
Author: John Singleton Mosby
Publisher:
Published: 2017-07-17
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780282403119
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Stuart's Cavalry in the Gettysburg CampaignTun battle of Chancellorsville was fought on May 8, 1868; it was a prelude to Gettysburg. Considering the numerical inferiority of the Southern army and the fact thatittooktheofiensiveanddroveitsantagonistoutof his entrmchments over the river it had just triumphantly crossed, I consider it the boldut deed of arms and the most wonderful achievement in the history of war.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Cavalry Battle That Saved the Union
Author: Paul D. Walker
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Published: 2002-04-30
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781455601950
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCivil War historians have long been puzzled by Pickett’s seemingly suicidal frontal attack on the Union center at Gettysburg. Here, for the first time, Paul D. Walker reveals Robert E. Lee’s true plan for victory at Gettysburg: a simultaneous strike against the Union center from the front and rear—Pickett’s infantry to charge the front, while Stuart’s cavalry struck the rear. The frontal assault by Pickett went off as scheduled, but as Stuart’s forces approached from the rear, they encountered a Union cavalry contingent. As the forces joined, the Union cavalry leader was quickly killed, and command fell to one of the most dynamic figures in American history—George Armstrong Custer. What followed was America’s greatest cavalry battle: 7,500 Confederate horsemen ranged against 5,000 Union cavalry, Jeb Stuart against George Custer, with the outcome of the Civil War at stake.
I Rode with Jeb Stuart
Author: H. B. McClelland
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2017-01-23
Total Pages: 607
ISBN-13: 1787203360
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMajor-General J.E.B. Stuart (1833-1864) was one of the Confederacy’s greatest horsemen, soldiers, and heroes. As early as First Manassas (Bull Run) he contributed significantly to the Confederate victory, he subsequently displayed his daring and brilliance in the battles of Second Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Brandy Station—the most significant cavalry battle of the war, and Stuart’s finest moment. General Lee depended on Stuart for knowledge of the enemy for, as he said, Stuart never brought him a piece of false information. But Stuart was mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern in May, 1864. Not since the death of Stonewall Jackson had the South sustained so great a personal loss, his rollicking, infectious gaiety and hard fighting were sorely missed in the grim last days of Lee’s army. By all accounts, I Rode with Jeb Stuart is the most reliable and persuasive portrait of Stuart offered by a contemporary, and is indispensable for any thorough knowledge of the great Confederate cavalryman. “This book, which is both biography and memoir, is the richest source on the Civil War career of the plumed knight of the Army of Northern Virginia, Major-General James Ewell Brown Stuart. Though it has been out of print for generations, it is still read, and has fairly won its way onto the shelf of ‘classics’ of the war....It is by all odds the most reliable account of Stuart and his horsemen left by Stuart’s intimates....A reader who rides with Stuart through the Gettysburg campaign, until the Confederate infantry is safely south of the swollen Potomac, is not likely to forget the experience. In the light of McClellan’s narrative the ancient, wearying Confederate controversies over Gettysburg seem to lose a great deal of their importance.”—Burke Davis, Introduction, I Rode with Jeb Stuart
The Cavalry at Gettysburg
Author: Edward G. Longacre
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1993-02-01
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780803279414
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Bristles with analysis, details, judgments, personality profiles, and evaluations and combat descriptions, even down to the squadron and company levels."-Civil War Times Illustrated
Jeb Stuart and the Confederate Defeat at Gettysburg
Author: Warren C. Robinson
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780803205659
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Army was much embarrassed by the absence of the cavalry," Robert E. Lee wrote of the Gettysburg campaign, stirring a controversy that has never died. Lee's statement was an indirect indictment of General James Ewell Brown ("Jeb") Stuart, who was the cavalry.
