Letter to "My dearest Nannie", 1864 March 24.

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Letter to "My dearest Nannie", 1864 March 24.

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In a letter written 7 weeks before his death Stuart thanks Nannie for a note and jar of preserves; assures her she is a favorite cousin; quotes sentimental songs; looks forward to pleasant times when the war is over; notes that "as spring approaches the intervals of scouts, picnics battles and reviews are pleasantly intermingled"; invites her to visit; and teases her in regards to his staff officers Andrew R. Venable, Theodore Garnett, Robert H. Goldsborough and Heros von Borcke. With the letter is a non-contemporary 8 x 10 glossy copy of a photograph of Stuart.

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Borcke, Heros ˜vonœ 1835-1895

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Venable, Andrew Reid, fl. 1864.

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Goldsborough, Robert

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Garnett, Theodore, fl. 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...