Stuart, James Ewell Brown, known as Jeb Stuart 1833-64
US Confederate soldier

Born in Patrick Country, Virginia, he graduated from West Point in 1854 and served in the US cavalry in Texas and Kansas, resigning his commission at the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. He became a valued intelligence officer in the Confederate army, and the Confederacy's best-known cavalry commander, scouting Union forces of General George McClellan and performing brilliantly in Pennsylvania, at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and in the Wilderness Campaign. He was criticized at the Battle of Gettysburg, however, for arriving too late because he was off on a raid. He was mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern.