Major General George Stoneman Jr.

[major bill]

Major General Stoneman seemed to have had a bit of an up and down career during the Civil War. Yet he seemed to have had the confidence of several important generals. Was their confidence in Stonemsn justified?

 

[luinrina]

I haven't read anything about Stoneman yet so I don't know, but maybe @Eric Wittenberg will be able to tell you more.

 

[Eric Wittenberg]

George Stoneman was a member of the legendary West Point class of 1846. He was a career cavalryman, although he commanded an infantry corps for a time under McClellan. Hooker scapegoated Stoneman for his defeat at Chancellorsville, which was highly unfair. When heavy rains cost the federals the element of surprise at the outset of what became the Stoneman raid during the Chancellorsville campaign, Hooker bungled and ordered the raid to proceed anyway, instead of calling it off and ensuring that the Army of the Potomac had an adequate cavalry screen.

I address Stoneman's role in this book of mine: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0738503576/?tag=civilwartalkc-20

 

[Deleted User CS]

McFarland Press has recently published a new biography of Stoneman. David.

 

[luinrina]

George Stoneman was a member of the legendary West Point class of 1846.

I might be mistaken but wasn't Stoneman a roommate of Stonewall Jackson at West Point? The intern at the Jackson Shrine told me that they couldn't move Jackson to Richmond for treatment because the railroad was cut by a raid, and how ironic it was that the one to cut the railroad was Stonewall's old roommate.