Letter to Major Henry Hill [manuscript], 1861 January 11.

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Letter to Major Henry Hill [manuscript], 1861 January 11.

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Jeb Stuart, Fort Wise, Kansas Territory, to Major Henry Hill of Culpeper, Va.,stating "right or wrong, alone or otherwise, I go with Virginia".

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Hill, Henry, fl. 1861,

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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...