11 May 1864 A.D. JEB Stuart Mortally Wounded 6 Miles North of Richmond, VA
11 May 1864 A.D. JEB Stuart Mortally Wounded 6 Miles North of Richmond, VA Editors. “ 1864 – A dismounted Union trooper fatally wounds J.E.B. Stuart, one of the most colorful generals of the South, at the Battle of Yellow Tavern, just six miles north of Richmond. ” This Day in U.S. Military History. N.d. https://thisdayinusmilhist.wordpress.com/2014/05/11/may-11/ . Accessed 6 May 2015. 1864 – A dismounted Union trooper fatally wounds J.E.B. Stuart, one of the most colorful generals of the South, at the Battle of Yellow Tavern, just six miles north of Richmond. Stuart died the next day. During the 1864 spring campaign in Virginia, General Ulysses S. Grant applied constant pressure on Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. In early May, the two armies clashed in the Wilderness and again at Spotsylvania Court House as they lurched southward toward Richmond. Meanwhile, Grant sent General Phil Sheridan and his cavalry on a raid deep behind Confederate lines. The plan was t...