Cavalryman of the Lost Cause: A Biography of J. E. B. Stuart

Now in paperback, this major biography of J.E.B. Stuart-the first in two decades-uses newly available documents to draw the fullest, most accurate portrait of the legendary Confederate cavalry commander ever published.

* Major figure of American history: James Ewell Brown Stuart was the South's most successful and most colorful cavalry commander during the Civil War. Like many who die young (Stuart was thirty-one when he succumbed to combat wounds), he has been romanticized and popular- ized...