I wonder if some sort of flanking maneuver in front at Gettysburg (maybe against Federal artillery?) might have aided "pickets charge", instead of that way behind the lines "skirmishing"?
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Stuart did make a good job of commanding infantry at Chancellorsville when Jackson went down.
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He did fine, but only under those rather simple circumstances. Throwing infantry against the Union defense lines. As events proved he wasn't a great choice as a cavalry corps commander. He probably would have been good in an independent command.
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Stuart would have done well commanding infantry. However, his forte was commanding cavalry and that is where he belongs; he had few if any superiors in that capacity. (Your objections notwithstanding, General Forrest!!)
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ewc states: Stuart would have done well commanding infantry. However, his forte was commanding cavalry and that is where he belongs; he had few if any superiors in that capacity. (Your objections notwithstanding, General Forrest!!)
I have to go along with this appraisal. Cavalry was his forte but he would have done well commanding infantry.
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He probably would have been good in an independent command.
I believe he did fine in command of the cavalry, and would have been at least adequate as an infantry commander. However, the notion of just giving him an independent cavalry unit to operate, is spot on. If coordination with others was not his forte, his strengths would have been unencumbered had he led a strictly independent unit.
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He probably would have been good in an independent command.
I would have to agree.
He did fine at Chancellorsville because he was given a goal and not told specifically how to accomplish it. In his ride around McClellan in 1862 he was told to go as far as he could in gathering information, but wasn't given specifics. At Gettysburg, Lee tried to rein him in and all went to heck...
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Should JEB Stuart commanded infantry? 
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