Jeb Stuart
Born February 6, 1833
Patrick County, Virginia
Died May 12, 1864
Richmond, Virginia
Legendary general of the cavalry corps of the
Confederate Army of Northern Virginia
"The war i...
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James Ewell Brown Stuart (1833-1864), known as Jeb Stuart, ranks among the most effective cavalry officers in American military history for his exploits in the Civil War.Jeb Stuart was born in Patrick...
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A haunting portrait of a slave girl painted by the wife of Gen. Robert E. Lee at her family's Virginia plantation in 1830 is being sold to Colonial Williamsburg for its museum collection, a New Yor...
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A financially strapped book dealer who stole scores of Civil War documents from U.S. archives and sold them on eBay was sentenced Thursday to 15 months in prison.Denning McTague, 40, worked as an u...
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When an 80-year-old white Virginia legislator recently came out against a resolution apologizing for slavery because blacks, he said, should "get over it," he ignited a storm of protests from black...
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New York (dpa) - Several items relating to the death of
revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara will be put up for auction this
week in Texas, including a lock of his hair, cut ...
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