Stuart's Tarheels: James B. Gordon & His North Carolina Cavalry (Army of Northern Virginia series) [Hardcover]

Chris J. Hartley (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 438 pages
• Publisher: Butternut & Blue; 1st edition (December 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 093552357X
• ISBN-13: 978-0935523577
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,033,387 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Chris Hartley is the author of Stoneman's Raid, 1865, which was published by John F. Blair, Publisher, in the fall of 2010. The book won the 2011 Willie Parker Peace Prize from the N.C. Society of Historians, and was named a finalist for the Ben Franklin Award in History from the Independent Book Publishers Association.

Hartley is also the author of Stuart's Tarheels: James B. Gordon and his North Carolina Cavalry, which received the UDC's Jefferson Davis Award. The second edition of Stuart's Tarheels was released in the summer of 2011.

Hartley is also a frequent speaker on military history, and he has written for popular history periodicals. For more info, visit www.stonemansraid.com.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent CW cavalry study, September 28, 2001

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This review is from: Stuart's Tarheels: James B. Gordon & His North Carolina Cavalry (Army of Northern Virginia series) (Hardcover)

"North Carolina has done nobly in this army." What did Major General J.E.B. Stuart, the famed Confederate cavalry commander, mean when he wrote these words? Did he refer to the Tarheel infantrymen in the Army of Northern Virginia? Or the gunners in North Carolina artillery batteries? In Stuart's Tarheels: James R Gordon and His North Carolina Cavalry, author Chris J. Hartley shows how Stuart first found evidence for this statement in his own ranks-beginning with one man.

Brigadier General James Byron Gordon was a protege and kindred spirit of Stuart himself Often overlooked or confused with cousin General John B. Gordon in Civil War literature, Gordon was the consummate nineteenth century landowner, politician, and businessman. When Civil War came, the citizen became a soldier. After he helped form an infantry company, Gordon joined the Tarheel cavalry. He rose to lead two regiments, two brigades, and (temporarily) a division, before he finally settled into permanent command of the North Carolina Cavalry Brigade. When he died just a week after Stuart, he was one of the greatest cavalrymen ever produced by the state of North Carolina.

In Gordon's men Stuart found more to admire. Through them Stuart's Tarheels takes a fresh look at the vaunted cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia-its battles, its controversies, and the lives of its troopers-from the previously unexplored
438 pages, illus, maps, notes, bibliog, appendices, index.