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JEB STUART

James Ewell Brown Stuart (known as Jeb Stuart) was an American soldier. He was born in 1833 at Virginia and died in 1864 from wounds received at the Battle of Yellow Tavern. Educated at West Point, he resigned on the outbreak of the American Civil War and joined the Confederate forces as a lieutenant-colonel. He took part in many of the battles including the Battle of Bull Run and the Battle of Chancellorsville where he took command of the second corps after the death of general Thomas Jackson.
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