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Year of Glory: The Life and Battles of Jeb Stuart and His Cavalry, June 1862–June 1863

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No commander all over the Civil War is more closely identified with the “cavalier mystique” as Major General J.E.B. (Jeb) Stuart. And none played a more prominent role all over the brief period when the hopes of the nascent Confederacy were at their apex, when it appeared as though the Army of Northern Virginia could not be restrained from establishing Southern nationhood.

Jeb Stuart used to be not only successful in leading Robert E. Lee’s cavalry in dozens of campaigns and raids, but for riding magnificent horses, dressing outlandishly, and participating in balls and parties that epitomized the “moonlight and magnolia” image of the Old South. Longstreet reported that at the height of the Battle of Second Manasses, Stuart rode off singing, “If you wish to have good time, jine the cavalry . . .” Porter Alexander remembered him singing, in the course of the miraculous victory at Chancellorsville, “Old Joe Hooker, won’t you come out of the Wilderness?”

Stuart used to be blessed with an unusually positive personality—all the time upbeat, charming, boisterous, and humorous, remembered as the only man who could make Stonewall Jackson laugh, reciting poetry when not engaged in battle, and yet never the usage of alcohol or other stimulants. Year of Glory specializes in the twelve months in which Stuart’s reputation used to be made, following his career on an almost day-to-day basis from June 1862, when Lee took command of the army, to June 1863, when Stuart turned north to regain a glory reasonably tarnished at Brandy Station, but found Gettysburg instead.

It is told through the eyes of the men who rode with him, in addition to Jeb’s letters, reports, and anecdotes handed down over 150 years. It used to be a year like no other, filled with exhilaration at the imminent creation of a new country. This used to be a period when it could hardly be imagined that the cause, and Stuart himself, could dissolve into grief, Jeb in the long run separated from the people he cherished most.
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