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Images of America: Patrick County Virginia
Images of America: Patrick County Virginia
Formed in 1790, Patrick County is named for the
Commonwealth of Virginia’s first governor, Patrick Henry, who lived in
neighboring Henry County. Located along the border of North Carolina where the
Blue Ridge Mountains of the Appalachian Range cross the state line, the “Free
State of Patrick” is half piedmont and half mountain plateau. This dividing
geographic feature is reflected in the mountain people of Scots-Irish and German
descent along with English living below the mountain heights. This divergent
population produced tobacco magnate R. J. Reynolds; Civil War general J. E. B.
Stuart; Virginia governor Gerald Baliles; Virginia’s highest-elected female,
former attorney general Mary Sue Terry; and World Series pitcher Brad Clontz.
About the Author
Thomas D. Perry grew up in Patrick CountyÂ’s most historic community
of Ararat. He attended Patrick County High School and, in 1983, graduated from
Virginia Tech. Perry founded the J. E. B. Stuart Birthplace Preservation Trust,
Inc., in 1990. The nonprofit organization has preserved 75 acres of the Stuart
property, including the house site where James Ewell Brown Stuart was born on
February 6, 1833. Tom is the author of Ascent to Glory: The Genealogy of J. E.
B. Stuart; The Free State of Patrick: Patrick County, Virginia, in the Civil
War; and StuartÂ’s Birthplace: The History of the Laurel Hill Farm. Perry
produces a monthly e-mail newsletter about regional history from his Web site,
www.freestateofpatrick.com.
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Images of America Patrick County Virginia released on Monday, October 29, 2007, by
Arcadia Publishing is authored by Patrick County Historian Thomas
D. Perry is Perry’s fourth on Patrick County History and J. E. B. Stuart.
It
contains 200 photographs of Patrick County and will retail for $19.99. This book
will be the first nationally released book on Patrick County, Virginia. This
book will be available locally at the Just Plain Country Store in Stuart,
Virginia along with Perry’s other books Ascent To Glory: The
Genealogy of J. E. B. Stuart, The Free State Of Patrick: Patrick County Virginia
In The Civil War and J. E. B. Stuart’s Birthplace: The History of the
Stuart Family and the Laurel Hill Farm.
"ARARAT, Va. - Patrick County has 483
square miles, virtually all of which are covered by a
new book celebrating the area's history through a
collection of vintage photographs. “Patrick County,”
part of an “Images of America” series by Arcadia
Publishing, is the first nationally released book on the
county. The book goes on sale Monday, offering numerous
glimpses of Patrick's past. It was authored by Tom Perry
of Ararat, a longtime historian who founded the J. E. B..
Stuart Preservation Trust and has authored three other
books on Patrick County. The latest brings into focus
more than 200 images of all facets of life in a
community that has produced colorful figures ranging
from the Confederate Gen. Stuart to tobacco magnate R.J.
Reynolds. Also on the list are sports notables including
the Wood Brothers of NASCAR fame, pro football player
Tim Goad and Major League pitcher Brad Clontz. All are
included in the new volume. In the book, Perry makes
generous use of photos loaned by people from throughout
Patrick along with various archival sources. Many are
included from the author's own collection, with all
managing to spring vividly to life for the reader
despite their black-and-white format. Among the book's
more interesting tidbits are photos of famous people not
usually associated with Patrick County, such as Andy
Griffith's mother, Geneva Nunn Griffith. The book also
offers images buildings gone but not forgotten,
especially in the county seat of Stuart. Another of its
more interesting facets are images of regular people
engaged in the daily routines of agriculture,
transportation and recreation, whose activities are
meticulously woven into the 128-page volume. It also
explores photographically the county's role in the
bigger history of the nation and the Blue Ridge region.
Individual sections are devoted to “Those Who Served,”
containing pictures of soldiers who have been part of
Patrick County's rich military history, along with “Far
From Ordinary,” highlighting some of its more unique
individuals. Another is dedicated to “Industry and
Commerce,” with the book containing nine chapters in
all. “Patrick County/Images of America” will retail for
$19.99 at area bookstores, independent retailers, online
bookstores or online from the publisher at
www.arcadiapublishing.com. Copies also can be ordered
from Arcadia at (888) 313-2665."
-- Courtesy of the
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God's Will Be Done:
The Christian Life of
J. E. B. Stuart
For Release: February 6, 2008, Ararat, Virginia
NEW BIOGRAPHY OF J. E. B. STUART
RELEASED ON HIS BIRTHDAY
Laurel Hill Publishing is pleased
to announce the release of God’s Will Be Done: The Christian Life of J. E.
B. Stuart by Thomas D. Perry. The 147 page book is a biography of Patrick
County Virginia’s most famous son Civil War General James Ewell Brown Stuart
focusing on his faith along with his life and military career. The book will
be available locally exclusively at Booth #110 in the Just Plain Country
Store in
Stuart, Virginia, until February 12 when it will be
released nationally. Cost of the book is $14.99.
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Did you know that J. E. B. Stuart?
Founded churches in Kansas that are still standing.
Gave $100 to the formation of a church
in Patrick County.
Bought his men copies of the
scriptures from his own pocket.
Gave Temperance speeches throughout
his life after promising his mother at 12 he would not drink.
These are some of the history revealed
in this new book.
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This three-chapter 138-page book excerpted from J.
E. B. Stuart’s Birthplace: The History of the Laurel Hill Farm by Thomas D.
Perry focuses on the Christian life led by Civil War General J. E. B. “Jeb”
Stuart. Stuart first found God as a He joined the Methodist Church at Emory
and Henry College and later became an Episcopalian while in the United
States Army (1854-61). This book tells about Stuart’s many words and
comments about his faith including his last words, “God’s Will Be Done,”
delivered on May 12, 1864, after receiving wounds at the Battle of Yellow
Tavern. Stuart born in Ararat, Virginia, rests today in Richmond’s Hollywood
Cemetery.
Table of Contents
Foreword
6
Chapter One Son of Southwest Virginia (1833-1850)
10
Chapter Two Soldier of the United States (1850-1861)
22
Chapter Three Soldier of the Confederate States
(1861-1864) 52
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Notes From The Free State Of Patrick: Patrick County
Virginia History is a 210 page soft cover book that includes chapters on many
people and places studied over the last decade. The book finds stories
heretofore unknown or misunderstood including finding new material in the
Library of Virginia to the Patrick County Courthouse. Included are speeches,
blogs, website material and various sources the author gives a varied
description of his native county The Free State Of Patrick. Chapters from the
American Revolution through the Civil War and the seven men who gave all in the
Vietnam Conflict give a diverse look at the history of Patrick County Virginia.
ISBN-10: 1438241283
ISBN-13: 978-1438241289
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Table of Contents
For Notes From The Free State Of Patrick
Foreword Cobblestones on
Crawford Avenue 6
One Tale of Two
Great Grandfathers:
J. E. B. Stuart’s Ancestors in the American
Revolution 12
Two The World War
Two Plane Crash On Bull Mountain 22
Three Patrick
County People 32
Four Patrick
County History 60
Five United
States History
80
Six “The Night
They Drove Old Dixie Down”
George Stoneman’s Civil War Raid Through
Patrick 94
Seven North
Carolina History
112
Eight Patrick
County Oral History Project 122
Nine Over The
Rainbow: Patrick County History 124
Ten Virginia
History
134
Eleven Patrick
County In The Vietnam Conflict 140
Twelve “If Thee Must
Fight, Fight Well”
The Life of William Jackson
Palmer 148
Thirteen Reynolds
History
164
Fourteen “Makers of
History”
African-Americans And The Civil
War 176
Fifteen Hokie
History
192
Afterword
“Home”
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J. E. B. STUART'S BIRTHPLACE
THE HISTORY OF THE LAUREL HILL FARM
“The Stuart Birthplace is the most important historic project ever undertaken in
Patrick County.”
--Dr. James I. Robertson of Virginia Tech
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After twenty years of research, this 250 page book tells the story of J. E. B.
Stuart's maternal and paternal families journey to Laurel Hill, the 1500 acre
Patrick County farm, where Stuart was born on February 6, 1833, to Archibald and
Elizabeth Letcher Pannill Stuart. It tells the story of the Laurel Hill Farm
from prehistoric times up through 2006 and the efforts to preserve the property
as the only site in the nation specifically preserved to remember J. E. B.
Stuart and his role in our nation's history.
ISBN-10: 1438239343
ISBN-13: 978-1438239347
Library of Congress Control Number:
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Table of Contents For
Stuart's Birthplace: The History of the Laurel Hill Farm.
Foreword
“Home”
Chapter 1 The
Hollow
Ararat Virginia Before The Stuarts
Chapter 2 The
Immigrant
Archibald Stuart
(ca1697-1761)
Chapter 3 The
Major
Alexander Stuart (1733-1823)
Chapter 4 The
Judge
Alexander Stuart (1770-1832)
Chapter 5 The Patriot
William Letcher (1750-1780)
Chapter 6 The Daughter
Bethenia Letcher Pannill (1780-1845)
Chapter 7 The
Father
Archibald Stuart (1795-1855)
Chapter 8 The
Mother
Elizabeth Letcher Pannill Stuart
(1801-1884)
Chapter 9
The Children of Archibald and Elizabeth Stuart
Jeb Stuart's Siblings
Chapter 10 Son of Southwest
Virginia
James Ewell Brown Stuart
(1833-1850)
Chapter 11 Soldier of the United
States
James Ewell Brown Stuart (1850-1861)
Chapter 12 Soldier of the Confederate States
James Ewell Brown Stuart (1861-1864)
Chapter 13 The
Wife
Flora Cooke Stuart (1836-1923) and her
descendants
Chapter 14 Laurel Hill After The Stuart Family
Chapter 15 A Personal
Preservation
Afterword “Walk This Hallowed
Ground”
Bibliography
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Tom Perry is pleased to announce
publication of J. E. B. Stuart’s Birthplace: The History of the Laurel Hill Farm.
The book is available beginning on February 6, 2007, J. E. B. Stuart’s 174th
Birthday. Perry Comments: “In 1986 Professor Emory Thomas published his
biography of J. E. B. Stuart Bold Dragoon, the first biography in nearly
thirty years since Burke Davis’s The Last Cavalier. After reading this book
I remembered how prominent Stuart’s place in our nation’s history really was
and all the famous people and events he touched in his short thirty-one
years. I spent the next few years reading about him and then about 1988 I
decided that something should be done to save part of the Laurel Hill
property and with that I began researching Stuart and his family for the
next twenty years.
This new book, my third
relating to Stuart and/or the Civil War is full of new information. For the
first time the life along with the personal and financial problems of
Archibald Stuart, General Stuart’s father, are examined in detail. This book
is based on first hand accounts from manuscript collections all over the
country especially the university libraries in Virginia and North Carolina. A chapter on Stuart’s wife
Flora, who survived him by fifty-nine years, and her descendants down to
2006 is presented for the first time.
The three chapters on
“Jeb” Stuart are full of lots of new information. Specifically, I focused on
his deep religious faith and sobriety, which is far from the image of the
romantic cavalier he cultivated. Stuart joined the temperance movement
founded churches and even bought his soldiers copies of the scriptures. For
the first time Stuart’s seven year career in the United States
Army is covered relying on information gleaned from the National Archives.
Areas overlooked in his career during the War Between The States such as his
role at the Battle of Chancellorsville, where he replaced the wounded
“Stonewall” Jackson leading an entire corps of infantry. His role in the
largest cavalry battle in the Western Hemisphere at Brandy Station in June
1863 and the way he gave Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia time to
escape after the Battle of Gettysburg and the postwar controversy about his
role in that battle are covered. Finally, Stuart's last days on earth
culminating with his mortal wounding and death on May 12, 1864, after the
Battle of Yellow Tavern, just north of
Richmond is
covered.
There is an entire
chapter about the preservation of the site beginning in the 1960s up through
2006. The many people who assisted in saving part of the Stuart’s Birthplace
are covered especially those in before the forming of the J. E. B. Stuart
Birthplace Preservation Trust, Inc. and the early days of the organization
we started in 1990.
This book will show why
Laurel Hill is Patrick County’s most historic site and that J. E. B. Stuart
thought of Ararat,
Virginia, as home as do I. The many
histories of Laurel Hill from the Native-Americans, African-Americans,
Antebellum Farm Life and the Stuart Family’s role in our history along with
the regular people of Patrick County I hope will give people a reason to
visit Laurel Hill and learn more about it.”
This
book tells the story of the farm in
Ararat, Virginia, that was the birthplace and boyhood home of
Patrick
County’s most famous son
James Ewell Brown “Jeb” Stuart and the many other people who lived there. In
255 pages the story of Stuart’s family from their arrival in North America in 1733 through 2006 is told with a seven
page bibliography and index.
Laurel Hill’s history begins with
prehistoric times including information on the Native-Americans, the
American Revolution, Antebellum Farm Life and the life of J. E. B. Stuart,
who served in the U. S. Army and fought against it in the Confederate Army
of Northern Virginia as commander of Robert E. Lee’s cavalry in the Civil
War. The life of the African-American Slaves beginning in 1780 through 1859
(nearly 50 souls) is covered in detail gathering information from original
sources in the Patrick and
Henry
County
courthouses.
The book reveals the lives of the
women of Laurel Hill such as Elizabeth Perkins Letcher Hairston, who saw her
husband, William Letcher, killed by Pro-British Tories in the American
Revolution and then married George Hairston of Henry County. The book tells of Elizabeth and
William Letcher’s daughter, Bethenia, who married into the Pannill Family
and was grandmother to J. E. B. Stuart. The book tells of the life of
Stuart’s mother Elizabeth
Letcher Pannill Stuart and J. E. B. Stuart’s widow Flora Cooke Stuart along
with information about the Stuart children and their father, Patrick County
Attorney and politician Archibald Stuart.
Laurel Hill Farm after the Stuart’s
sold it in 1859 is covered pointing out the history of the Patrick County’s
most historic community of Ararat with stories of Revered Robert Childress
“The Man Who Moved A Mountain” and the midwife made famous by the cabin
along the Blue Ridge Parkway, Orleana Puckett. The book concludes with a
chapter on Perry’s personal work to preserve the site along with the
preservation interest of the Brown, Dellenback and Mitchell families of Ararat, Virginia.
The book may be ordered at
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THE FREE STATE OF PATRICK
PATRICK COUNTY VIRGINIA IN THE CIVIL WAR
“I congratulate Tom Perry for the masterful job he has done.”
--Dr. James I.
Robertson, Jr. Alumni Distinguished Professor of History at Virginia
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The Free State of Patrick:
Patrick County Virginia in the Civil War
Patrick County Civil War Book Announcement
Tom
Perry is pleased to announce publication of The Free State of Patrick: Patrick
County, Virginia in the Civil War. This 336 page soft cover book includes over
100 photos and 140 letters of Patrick County soldiers in The War Between The
States along with an index and extensive bibliography. The book includes rosters
of the 1700 Confederate and Union soldiers from Patrick County. See Table of
Contents for complete listing of the topics covered. It is available for $29.99
plus Virginia Sales Tax and $5 shipping at P. O. Box 50, Ararat, VA 24053. Thomas David Perry,
the Founder of the J. E. B. Stuart Birthplace, holds a Bachelor’s Degree in
history from Virginia Tech, where he studied under renowned historian James I.
Robertson, Jr. This book is the result of over ten years of research and three
years of writing.
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ISBN-13: 978-1438241197
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“A thorough job of
telling Patrick County’s Civil War history. The book will fill a longstanding
need.
I congratulate Tom Perry for the masterful job he has done.”
--Dr. James I.
Robertson, Jr. Alumni Distinguished Professor of History at Virginia
Tech
"The Civil War laid a heavy hand even on counties far
removed from the vortex of major military action. This history of Patrick
County, Virginia, offers an array of primary materials, recapturing the voices
of people who experienced seismic changes in their lives. It should appeal to a
wide range of readers interested in the Civil War."
--Gary W.
Gallagher, John L. Nau III Professor of History, University of
Virginia
“Tom Perry's history of his beloved home county is
chock full of original Civil War material available nowhere else. Hard work that
amasses that kind of primary evidence about the war is amazingly uncommon in the
field, and deserves the most enthusiastic kind of applause. I heartily commend
the book to students interested in the war, as seen through the eyes of its
contemporaries.”
--Robert K. Krick, Retired National Park
Service Historian at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park
"Wonderfully written, superbly researched. A book that
is a tribute to the men and women of Patrick County. The research is
richly written in a narrative that is a pleasure to read. The letters of
the men and women of Patrick County show their heart and soul during a tragic
time. This book is a vital history. Because of Tom Perry’s time and work,
the men and women of Patrick will not be forgotten but will live again through
this book. Every county of Virginia deserves to have a similar written tribute.
"
--Patricia Walenista, Founder of the Turner Ashby Historical
Society
“Growing up in Patrick County, the Civil War was The
War--it needed no other adjectives. The War's terrible imprint is visible on
dozens of grave markers across Patrick's rolling hills. The story of this little
corner of Virginia is so profound because it is repeated throughout the South,
over and over and over. Perry's book brings this point home plainly and
poignantly. From her most illustrious son, JEB Stuart, to common farmers and
housewives, Thomas Perry has told a compelling story of one community ravaged by
war. An invaluable tool for future scholars.”
--Debra and Thomas
Goodrich, Authors of The Day Dixie Died
“Thomas David Perry's "The Civil War in Patrick
County" is a prodigious research effort that fills a historical void in the
county's history. The work documents the county's military and social history of
the period and does so with balance and fairness. Scattered throughout the
weighty research are anecdotal gems that lighten the reader’s way. Any future
work on Patrick County's role in the Civil War will begin where Perry leaves
off.”
--Rodney Barfield - Author of Seasoned By Salt: An
Historical Album of the Outer Banks; Thomas Day, Cabinetmaker; and Christopher
Bechtler: Mint Master of Pioneer Gold.
“I completely enjoyed this. It is well written, smart,
organized, moving and precisely researched. I know what it took to turn this
out. Every citizen of this county is indebted to you.” --The Honorable Martin
F. Clark, Jr. Author of The Many Aspects of Mobile Home
Living.
“This book is a must for Civil War and history
enthusiasts. The personal stories of Patrick Countians in the Civil War are
touching and emotional, especially for the families represented.” --Patricia
Ross, Director, Bassett Historical Center
“I salute Tom Perry’s work. He has done so much
to preserve the history of Patrick County, and now he has researched and written
an enjoyable and comprehensive account of its wartime trials and tribulations.
It’s a needed, solid contribution to Civil War and Virginia history.”
--Christopher J.
Hartley, Author of Stuart’s Tarheels: James B. Gordon and the First North
Carolina Cavalry.
" A wonderful book! An
excellent source of information and a must-have book for anyone wishing to
research Patrick County's role in the War between the States. The most
comprehensive book of it's kind about Patrick County and the soldiers that
fought from that county."
--Chris Washburn,
Wharton-Stuart Camp #1832, Sons of Confederate
Veterans.
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Table of Contents The Free State of Patrick:
Patrick County, Virginia in the Civil War
Foreword “The Undiscovered
Country”
Chapter One: “The Free State of Patrick”
Patrick County
During the War
Chapter Two: “One of the hardest trials of my life”
Patrick County’s Confederate Soldiers
Chapter Three: “A Journey of
Four Years”
Rufus Woolwine and the Fifty-First Virginia Infantry
Regiment
Chapter Four: “The Patrick
Boys”
Company K, 50th Virginia Infantry Regiment
Chapter Five:
“Patrick Henry Volunteers”
Company H, 42nd Virginia Infantry
Regiment
Chapter Six: “The Dear Old Hills of Patrick”
James Ewell
Brown Stuart and Patrick County
Chapter Seven: “If I could get to old
Patrick I would be a happy man.”
Civil War Letters 1861-1865
Chapter
Eight: “I owe the Southern Confederacy a debt”
George Stoneman’s 1865
Raid
Chapter Nine: Regimental Histories of Patrick County
Units
Roster of Confederate Soldiers From Patrick County
Roster of
Union Soldiers From Patrick County
Patrick County, Virginia and
Confederate Officials
Free Men of Color Conscripted and Slave
Requisitions
Roster of Patrick
County Patrol Members
Patrick
County in the Southern Claims Commission
Civil War Pension Applications
From Patrick County
Civil War Disability Applications From Patrick
County
United Daughters of the Confederacy Applications
Robert E.
Lee Camp Confederate Soldiers' Home Applications for
Admission
Bibliography
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The Genealogy of J. E. B.
Stuart
by Thomas David
Perry
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Edition 2008 $14.99
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The Fourth Edition of Ascent To Glory: The Genealogy of
J. E. B. Stuart is now available from
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www.createspace.com publishing unit of Amazon. This was the first book I
attempted created originally with Family Tree Maker software. I gave the first
edition to the J. E. B. Stuart Birthplace as a fundraiser, who did nothing to
promote or sell the book, so I took back the third edition and revised it. This
fourth edition includes an introductory essay about J. E. B. Stuart’s life along
with short biographical sketches about his siblings. A large section on his
ancestors, maternal and paternal, is included.
Some questions this book would useful in answering are
was the Stuart Family on Stewart’s Creek west of Ararat related to the “Jeb’s”
family. Possibly through the original Stuarts who came to Augusta County,
Virginia. Another question is about the Brown Family. He is James Ewell Brown
Stuart, but this name comes from an uncle who married “Jeb’s” aunt and I never
found any information that the local Brown Family are related. There is a
chapter that tells of Stuart’s relationship to prominent persons such as Thomas
Jefferson and Robert E. Lee through the Randolph Family and Jubal Early through
the Hairston Family.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
6
J. E. B. Stuart and Patrick County
8
Children and Archibald and Elizabeth Stuart 26
(Includes Nancy Anne Dabney Stuart
Peirce, Bethenia Pannill Stuart Chevalier, Mary Tucker Stuart Headen, David
Pannill Stuart, William Alexander Stuart, John Dabney Stuart, James Ewell Brown
"Jeb" Stuart, Victoria Augusta Stuart Boyden, Virginia Josephine Stuart and an
unnamed son born in 1834.)
The Ancestors of J. E. B. Stuart
52
(Includes Archibald Stuart "The
Immigrant," Alexander Stuart "The Revolutionary," Judge Alexander Stuart, Giles
Letcher, William Letcher, Bethenia Letcher Pannill, Collateral lines of
Thomas, Eleanor and Benjamin Stuart)
Other Family Connections
72
(Family Connections: Brown, Hairston, Letcher, Pannill and Randolph
Families. Includes Family Connections to the Bruces, Hairstons, Randolphs (Thomas
Jefferson and Robert E. Lee), Earlys, Cookes, McGuires, Dabneys and Jefferson
Davis.)
This work of genealogy will give those interested
parties a starting point into the many family connections of General
Stuart. Stuart's family connections include many prominent families especially
in Virginia with names such as Hairston, Pannill, Letcher, Randolph, and Lee.
Stuart's and the descendants of his siblings are documented in this work along
with much about his ancestry and connections with many prominent families and
individual persons from the early history of the United States.
Confederate Major General James Ewell Brown Stuart was
born at the home of his parents, Archibald and Elizabeth Letcher Pannill Stuart,
Laurel Hill in Patrick County, Virginia on February 6, 1833. J. E. B. Stuart
spent his formative years in Patrick County, but left around 1845 for Wythe
County, Virginia to continue his education. He attended Emory and Henry College
from 1848 until 1850 when appointed to the United State Military Academy at West
Point, New York. He graduated thirteenth in the class of 1854.
Stuart spent seven years in the army of the United
States of America serving in the serving in the Regiment of Mounted Rifles and
the First United States Cavalry rising to the rank of Captain in the present day
states of Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Wyoming, and Colorado. During this
time he was involved the prequel for the coming Civil War in "Bleeding" Kansas
and putting down John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859. He married Flora
Cooke in 1855 and produced three children. In 1861, he resigned to join the
Virginia and the Confederate States of America.
From May of 1861 until May of 1864, "Jeb" Stuart earned
glory and fame mainly as the commander of Robert E. Lee's cavalry in the Army of
Northern Virginia providing reconnaissance, screening and raiding behind enemy
lines. He worked closely with Confederate Generals such as Joseph E. Johnston,
James Longstreet, Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson and Robert Edward Lee. His
career zenith occurred at Chancellorsville in May 1863 when he replaced the
wounded Jackson. Gettysburg and the surrounding controversy mar his reputation.
Richmond, where his remains lie in Hollywood Cemetery memorializes him with an
equestrian statue on Monument Avenue.
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J. E. B. Stuart’s biographer Emory Thomas describes
Tom Perry as "a fine and generous gentleman who grew up near Laurel Hill,
where Stuart grew up, has founded J. E. B. Stuart Birthplace and attracted
considerable interest in the preservation of Laurel Hill. He has started a
symposium series about aspects of Stuart’s life to sustain interest in
Stuart beyond Ararat, Virginia." Perry holds a BA in History from Virginia
Tech in 1983. Tom started the J. E. B. Stuart Birthplace Preservation Trust,
Inc. in 1990. The non-profit organization has preserved 75 acres of the
Stuart property including the house site where James Ewell Brown Stuart was
born on February 6, 1833. Perry wrote the eight interpretive signs about
Laurel Hill’s history shown in the photo to the left along with the Virginia
Civil War Trails sign and the new Virginia Historical Highway Marker in
2002. He spent many years researching traveling all over the nation to find
Stuart materials including two trips across the Mississippi River to visit
nearly every place "Jeb" Stuart served in the United States Army
(1854-1861). He continues his work to preserve Stuart’s Birthplace producing
the Laurel Hill Teacher’s Guide for educators and the Laurel Hill Reference
Guide for groups and the organization to share his lifetime of research on
the only preserved site in the nation relating to the birthplace and boyhood
home of James Ewell Brown Stuart. Tom can be seen on Virginia Public
Television’s Forgotten Battlefields: The Civil War in Southwest Virginia
with his mentor noted Civil War Historian Dr. James I. Robertson, Jr. Perry
has begun a collection of papers relating to Stuart and Patrick County
history in the Special Collections Department of the Carol M. Newman Library
at Virginia Tech under the auspices of the Virginia Center For Civil War
Studies. He is the author of Ascent to Glory, The Genealogy of J. E. B.
Stuart, The Free State of Patrick: Patrick County Virginia in the Civil
War, J. E. B. Stuart Birthplace: The History of the Laurel Hill Farm, God’s
Will Be Done: The Christian Life of J. E. B. Stuart, Images of America:
Patrick County Virginia, Images of America: Henry County Virginia, and Notes
From The Free State Of Patrick: Patrick County, Virginia, and Regional
History. In 2004, Perry began the Free State Of Patrick Internet History
Group, which has become the largest historical organization in the area with
over 500 members. It covers Patrick County Virginia and regional history.
Tom produces a monthly email newsletter about regional history entitled
Notes From The Free State of Patrick that goes from this website.
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Perry. No material to be used without permission. Contact Information: P. O. Box
50 Ararat VA 24053
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