Trivia #11 Temporary (4/28/2013)

[jay gale]

AP Hill

 

[GELongstreet]

A.P. Hill - after his wounding for a short time Rodes and then Stuart

 

[hoosier]

A. P. Hill

 

[FrazierC]

Robert Rodes, then JEB Stuart.

 

[sarladaise]

JEB Stuart

 

[bixby272]

From May 2 to May 30, 1863, the Second Corps was commanded temporarily by Maj. Gen. A. P. Hill, with the exception of one day under Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart on 2 May, during the crucial loss of the mortally wounded Jackson.

 

[101combatvet]

Major General James Ewell Brown "JEB" Stuart was only a few miles away and respected enough to be considered for the role. He would say in his report:

"It was already dark when I sought General Jackson, and proposed, as there appeared nothing else for me to do, to take some cavalry and infantry over and hold the Ely's Ford road. He approved the proposition, and I had already gained the heights overlooking the ford, where was a large number of camp-fires, when Captain [R. H. T.] Adams, of General A. P. Hill's staff, reached me post-haste, and informed me of the sad calamities which for the time deprived the troops of the leadership of both Jackson and Hill, and the urgent demand for me to come and take command as quickly as possible. I rode with rapidity back 5 miles, determined to press the pursuit already so gloriously begun. General Jackson had gone to the rear, but General A. P. Hill was still on the ground, and formally turned over the command to me. I sent also a staff officer to General Jackson to inform him that I would cheerfully carry out any instructions he would give, and proceeded immediately to the front, which I reached at 10 p.m."​

 

[Eagle eye]

JEB Stuart

 

[Trivia Master]

JEB Stuart is correct!