While rallying his troops during the afternoon engagement the previous day at Yellow Tavern, Virginia, famed Confederate cavalry general J.E.B. Stuart had been hit with a single .44 caliber pistol shot in the right side of his stomach. He was taken from the field by ambulance and treated at his brother-in-laws' house in Richmond. After considerable suffering, he died quietly at 7:38 pm and was buried the next day at the Hollywood Cemetery in the city. He was thirty-one years old. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Derek Smith, The Gallant Dead: Union and Confederate Generals Killed in the Civil War (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2005), 242-244.
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