James Ewell Brown Stuart

Name STUART, James Ewell Brown "Jeb"
Born February 6 1833, Patrick Cty VA
Died May 12 1864, Richmond VA
Pre-War Profession Graduated West Point 1854, served in 1st Cavalry on frontier duty, aide to R E Lee when John Brown's body of men fought at Harper's Ferry, May 1861 resigned US army.
War Service May 1861 Lt. Col. in Virginia infantry, May 1861 Col. of 1st Virginia Cavalry, First Manassas, September 1861 Brig. Gen., Peninsula campaign, rode around McClellan's army, Seven Days, July 1862 Maj. Gen., command of all cavalry in ANV, Second Manassas campaign, Catlett's Station, Groveton, Sharpsburg campaign, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville campaign, temporarily commanded II Corps at Chancellorsville, Brandy Station, Gettysburg campaign, Gettysburg, Yellow Tavern (mw).
Notes Criticised for straying too far from Lee in the march to Gettysburg, he thereafter kept in close communication with the ANV.
Further reading
Davis, Burke Jeb Stuart, the last cavalier New York, Fairfax Press 1988
McClellan, Henry Brainerd The life and campaigns of Major-General J. E. B. Stuart : commander of the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia Boston, Houghton 1885
Mosby, John Singleton Stuart's cavalry in the Gettysburg campaign New York, Moffat, Yard 1908