Pitts' account of Stuart's raid ca. 1890.

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Pitts' account of Stuart's raid ca. 1890.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37760752

Memoir written by Pitts, a private soldier in Company K, First Virginia Cavalry, Confederate Army, of his experiences in General J.E.B. Stuart's raid around the Army of the Potomac outside of Richmond, Virginia, in the summer of 1862. Pitts focuses on troop movements and disputes official Union Army reports.

1 folder (14 p.)

University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus, Joseph Anderson Cook Library

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University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus, Joseph Anderson Cook Library

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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 ...

Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Cavalry Regiment, 1st (1861-1865)

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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...