Pitts, Jack E. Pitts' account of Stuart's raid ca. 1890. - View Resource (original) (raw)

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Pitts, Jack E.

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Private in Company K, First Regiment, Virginia Cavalry, Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He claimed Maryland as his home and apparently survived until some time after 1890. From the description of Pitts' account of Stuart's raid ca. 1890. (University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus). WorldCat record id: 37760752 ...

Stuart, Jeb, 1833-1864

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James Ewell Brown (Jeb) Stuart, soldier, was born 6 February 1833, on "Laurel Hill" plantation, Patrick County, Virginia. He died 12 May 1864 and is buried in Richmond, Virginia. Stuart graduated from the U.S. Military Academy (1850); received his commission (1854); and transferred to the Cavalry (1855). He married Flora Cooke, a colonel's daughter, in 1855, and the couple had three children. Stuart became Robert E. Lee's aide (1859) and resigned from the U.S. Army to be commissioned a lieutenan...