Saber and Scapegoat: J.E.B. Stuart and the Gettysburg ConventionThe major facts of the Gettysburg campaign and battle are well known, but controversies about its outcome abound even today. No issue is more contested than that of the whereabouts of the dashing cavalryman, Maj. Gen. J. E. B. Stuart. Author Mark Nesbitt gives a detailed reconstruction of Stuart's actions during the campaign and presents the case that Stuart was not at fault for the loss: He was following orders to the best of his ability. The blame surrounding Stuart only surfaced after the war when, in an attempt to exonerate Lee, some veterans vilified Stuart unfairly. Unfortunately for the great cavalryman, that culpability has stuck. Nesbitt's findings challenge generations of Gettysburg historiography and are certain to fuel the controversy for years to come. |
Contents
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GETTYSBURG | 41 |
Raiding on a Grand Scale | 43 |
Orders | 57 |
Around the Yankees Again | 75 |
The Third of July | 95 |
Covering the Withdrawal | 107 |
THE CONTROVERSY | 121 |
Stuart under Attack | 123 |
Mosby Parries | 145 |
Marshalls Epitaph | 173 |
Postmortem | 181 |
To Gettysburg | 85 |
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Page 13 - You may dispose of me very easily, — I am nearly disposed of now ; but this question is still to be settled, — this negro question I mean ; the end of that is not yet.
Page 20 - He is a rare man, wonderfully endowed by nature with the qualities necessary for an officer of light cavalry. Calm, firm, acute, active, and enterprising, I know no one more competent than he to estimate the occurrences before him at their true value.