America's Civil War

STUART WRONGED

including the entry written about Confederate Lt. Col. Elijah V. White (“Daring Dozen,” p. 29), and was highly disappointed when it said that Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart took an “ill-advised eight-day raid through Northern Virginia and Maryland, leaving Robert E. Lee’s army blind.” I am so tired of misguided historians repeating that myth. Lee was not blind. Please read by Kent Masterson Brown. Lee came to Pennsylvania to obtain food and

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