Stuart and Pelham

Battle of

Fredericksburg

Dec. 13, 1862

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Marker is at the intersection of Tidewater Trail (State Highway 2) and Benchmark Road (County Route 608), on the right when traveling south on Tidewater Trail.

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Stuart

Brigade Heaquarters Monument

U. S.

Headquarters, 2d Brigade,

5th Division,

Army of the Tennessee.

Col. David Stuart, 55th Illinois,

Commanding.

Established March 19, 1862.

Marker is on Federal Road, on the right when traveling east.

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Stuart’s Mortal Wound

Late in the afternoon of 11 May 1864, Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, the famous Confederate cavalry commander, was mortally wounded just east of here on Old Telegraph Road while rallying the left of his line during the Battle of Yellow ...

Stuart’s Mortal Wound

One half mile to the to the east, on the old Telegraph Road, is a monument marking the field where General J.E.B. Stuart was mortally wounded on May 11, 1864. The monument was erected by veterans of Stuart’s Cavalry in ...

Stuart Hall

Chartered on 13 January 1744 as the Virginia Female Institute, Stuart Hall is Virginia’s oldest college preparatory school for girls. The Rev. Dr. Richard H. Phillips headed the school from 1848 until 1880. Flora Cooke Stuart, “Mrs. General” J.E.B. Stuart, ...

The Hon. Archibald Stuart

This Stone covers the mortal remains of the Hon. Archibald Stuart. He died on the 11th day of July (d1832) aged 75 years 3 m. and 22 days. Merits the tribute of grateful remembrance having performed well his part in ...

Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's Southern Cavalry

Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's southern cavalry numbering about 6000 men arrived in Dillsburg July 1, 1863 by Dover and Rossville. Local stores and the U.S. Post Office were vandalized before proceeded to Carlisle where orders were received for them to rejoin ...

Stuart and Mosby

Here on the evening of August 22, 1862, General J. E. B. Stuart raided General Pope’s headquarters. Unable to burn the railroad bridge because of a heavy thunderstorm, Stuart withdrew his troops as well as 300 Federal prisoners and Pope’s ...

J.E.B. Stuart at Munson’s Hill

Following the First Battle of Manassas on 21 July 1861, Col. James Ewell Brown Stuart, commander of the 1st Virginia Cavalry, moved his troopers to Fairfax Court House and then here to Munson’s Hill, the Confederate position closest to the ...

Stuart and Bayard

After the Battle of Antietam on 17 Sept. 1862, Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia recrossed the Potomac River into Virginia. After President Abraham Lincoln’s constant urging, the Union Army of the Potomac, led by Maj. ...