Diaries kept while on duty at Forts Wise and Riley, Kansas Territory while serving with the 1st U.S. Cavalry [manuscript] 1858-1860.

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Diaries kept while on duty at Forts Wise and Riley, Kansas Territory while serving with the 1st U.S. Cavalry [manuscript] 1858-1860.

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Entries regarding the Kiowa Campaign, a recon patrol up the Salina, Cimaron, and Canadian Rivers and mentions patrol activity, descriptions of the country, and construction of Fort Wise. Added entry by J.E.B. Stuart, Jr.

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United States. Army. Cavalry, 1st

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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...