2-356-087 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Stuart's cavalry cutting telegraph wires, American Civil War, c1861-1864 (c1880). Confederate general James Ewell Brown 'Jeb' Stuart was known as a dashing cavalry commander, and a master of reconnaissance. He was killed on 12 May 1864 at the Battle of Yellow Tavern. A print from Cassell's History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume III, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880.