GDG- Stewart

Tom Ryan pennmardel at mchsi.com
Tue Oct 2 16:40:33 CDT 2007


<<If Stewart doesn't die does he become the scapegoat of Gettysburg>>

<<IIRC, wasn't he one of the scapegoats prior to his demise?>>

	According to Mark Nesbitt's "Saber and Scapegoat:  J.E.B. Stuart and the
Gettysburg Controversy," the casting around for scapegoats mainly started
after some of the participants wrote articles and published memoirs ten or
more years after the war.  The controversy appears to have heated up toward
the end of the 19th century.

	In 1908, John Mosby came out with a defense of Stuart's actions during the
campaign in a book titled "Stuart's Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign."

Tom



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