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Jeb Stuart and the Confederate Defeat at Gettysburg Warren C. Robinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robinson, Warren C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.
- Generals--Confederate States of America--Biography.
- Generals.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Cavalry operations.
- United States.
- Confederate States of America. Army--Biography.
- Confederate States of America.
- Stuart, Jeb, 1833-1864--Military leadership.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 p.)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "The Army was much embarrassed by the absence of the cavalry," Robert E. Lee wrote of the Gettysburg campaign, stirring a controversy that has never died. Lee's statement was an indirect indictment of General James Ewell Brown ("Jeb") Stuart, who was the cavalry.
- Contents:
- The background to Gettysburg
- Opening moves of the campaign
- Stuart, Lee, and the role of the cavalry
- Lee's orders before Gettysburg
- The great debate over the orders
- Options for the ride north
- Stuart's conduct of the ride north
- The battle as it unfolded
- The consequences of Stuart's raid
- Stuart and the defeat at Gettysburg.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-191) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-82362-3
- 9786610823628
- 0-8032-0565-1
- OCLC:
- 476036108
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