J.E.B Stuart at Yellow Tavern

[KianGaf]

This is an account of the final moments of J.E.B Stuart on a battlefield at Yellow Tavern.

 

[scooter748driver]

Thanks for sharing. I'll have to watch it!

 

[nc native]

Another account written by another witness states that a Union cavalryman who had been dismounted during the fight and was trying to get back to his unit was the man who fired the fatal round with a carbine. The bullet passed through Stuart's body and this witness remembered Stuart telling his retreating men, "Go back and do your duty as I have done mine."

 

[Woods-walker]

Monument to Stuart at Yellow Tavern

 

[redbob]

Another account written by another witness states that a Union cavalryman who had been dismounted during the fight and was trying to get back to his unit was the man who fired the fatal round with a carbine. The bullet passed through Stuart's body and this witness remembered Stuart telling his retreating men, "Go back and do your duty as I have done mine."

The fact that Stuart was mounted while no other troops reportedly were, made him an even more inviting target.

 

[KianGaf]

Sheridan's Richmond Raid

Sheridan's Richmond Raid

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A short summary of Sheridan's Richmond Raid. From most accounts I've read the only real achievement of the raid was the death of Stuart thus denying Lee of his expertise.

 

[ErnieMac]

Sheridan's Richmond Raid

Sheridan's Richmond Raid

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A short summary of Sheridan's Richmond Raid. From most accounts I've read the only real achievement of the raid was the death of Stuart thus denying Lee of his expertise.

Stuart and his cavalry were the objective of the Richmond Raid. On May 8, a heated discussion took place between Meade and Sheridan in which Sheridan said he could whip Stuart if Meade would give him a chance. Grant, being told of the comment told Meade "Did Sheridan say that? Well, he generally knows what he is talking about. Let him start right out and do it." Meade's order to Sheridan stated "The major-general commanding directs you to immediately concentrate your available mounted force, and with your ammunition trains and such supply trains as are filled (exclusive of ambulances) proceed against the enemy's cavalry..." Knowing that one thing that would pry Stuart away from Lee's army was an attack toward Richmond, Sheridan planned accordingly. He headed toward Richmond and Stuart followed.

 

[KianGaf]

When Sheridan detached from the rest of the army did it restrict the movements of the main body or did they move blind like Lee at Gettysburg?

 

[Elliot Crumblemuffin]

Thank you for sharing this video! I have admiration for the bravery AND the pageantry () of General JEB Stuart, despite some of his well-known controversies about Gettysburg, etc..it seems like he was quite the inspiring leader for his fellow soldiers and the Confederate citizens.

Is their not a story that General Stuart made a remark to the effect that he would rather die than live to see the Confederacy lose the war?

 

[KianGaf]

Thank you for sharing this video! I have admiration for the bravery AND the pageantry () of General JEB Stuart, despite some of his well-known controversies about Gettysburg, etc..it seems like he was quite the inspiring leader for his fellow soldiers and the Confederate citizens.

Is their not a story that General Stuart made a remark to the effect that he would rather die than live to see the Confederacy lose the war?

He was interesting character indeed. He even changed his sons name after his father in law sided with the United States instead of the confederacy.

The Estrangement of Jeb Stuart's Father-in-Law | Angle Valley Press

Brigadier General Philip St. George Cooke, US Army, MOLLUS, U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center [USAHEC] By the fall 1861, Jeb Stuart was frustrated that his father-in-law, Philip St. George Cooke, had remained in the U.S. Army instead of joining with his native Virginia and the Confederat ...

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[ErnieMac]

When Sheridan detracted from the rest of the army did it restrict the movements of the main body or did they move blind like Lee at Gettysburg?

It cost the AoP, Grant moved blind towards the North Anna and nearly marched into a trap. The absence of Stuart's cavalry also contributed to Ewell's failure at Harris Farm.

 

[ErnieMac]

Thank you for sharing this video! I have admiration for the bravery AND the pageantry () of General JEB Stuart, despite some of his well-known controversies about Gettysburg, etc..it seems like he was quite the inspiring leader for his fellow soldiers and the Confederate citizens.

Is their not a story that General Stuart made a remark to the effect that he would rather die than live to see the Confederacy lose the war?

"Go back! Go back! I had rather die than be whipped!" - JEB Stuart to retreating Confederates after being fatally wounded at Yellow Tavern.

 

[wausaubob]

Stuart and his cavalry were the objective of the Richmond Raid. On May 8, a heated discussion took place between Meade and Sheridan in which Sheridan said he could whip Stuart if Meade would give him a chance. Grant, being told of the comment told Meade "Did Sheridan say that? Well, he generally knows what he is talking about. Let him start right out and do it." Meade's order to Sheridan stated "The major-general commanding directs you to immediately concentrate your available mounted force, and with your ammunition trains and such supply trains as are filled (exclusive of ambulances) proceed against the enemy's cavalry..." Knowing that one thing that would pry Stuart away from Lee's army was an attack toward Richmond, Sheridan planned accordingly. He headed toward Richmond and Stuart followed.The goal was to achieve cavalry superiority. The US had the larger agricultural economy and was fighting from an expanding territory.

The goal was to achieve cavalry superiority. The US had the larger agricultural economy. The US was set up to generate millions of tons of oats and hay and to ship to the vast numbers of working horses and personal horses in the major cities. Northern farmers routinely grew and stored forage and grain to feed their livestock during winter. War only required that those resources be transported to the armies at the front.
The more the US cavalry and the Confederate cavalry fought, the sooner the US would become dominant. It was enormously costly and almost exhausted US credit. But the goal was to get to Winchester III, and eventually to Five Forks and Sailor's Creek.
As far as the cost to General Lee, with his best intelligence officer fighting Sheridan in the vicinity of Richmond, Lee got faulty intelligence about US movements. He withdrew artillery guns from the front that Hancock attacked at Spotsylvania. That led to a bloody attritional contest that the Confederates could ill afford.

 

[Linette]

Interesting article.
My great uncle was killed in the battle of Yellow Tavern also. There is some documentation in The History of Amelia County book that mentions his name,John B. Sanderson written from a first person account.
He was with the Amelia Dragoons along with his 4 brothers.
He was 19 years old.

 

[ErnieMac]

I have attached a CMSR for your great uncle taken from Fold3. John Sanderson was a soldier in Company G, 1st Virginia Cavalry (Amelia Dragoons as you have noted) which was a regiment in Wickham's Brigade, Fitzhugh Lee's Division. He was killed on May 9, 1864, somewhere to the east of Spotsylvania Court House. That day Wickham's Brigade spent the morning skirmishing with Burnside's IX Corps advancing toward Spotsylvania. Later that day they were trying to impede Federal troopers as the advanced toward Richmond at the beginning of Sheridan's Raid.

 

[KianGaf]

A short tour of the site. There isn't much left with modern developments.