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THBMRS. J.E.B. STUART, Wife of Confederate General Jeb Stuart Refuses an Autograph
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Mrs. J.E.B. Stuart Wife of Confederate General "Jeb" Stuart 1882 Virginian Female Institute Letterhead ALS Framed
MRS. J.E.B. STUART Wife of Confederate General "Jeb" Stuart.
January 11, 1882-Dated, Rare Autograph Letter Signed, "Mrs. J.E.B. Stuart" on Virginian Female Institute letterhead, listed as "Principle", 1 page (front and back), measuring 8.5" x 5.5" (by sight), attractively matted and framed under glass with the original transmittal envelope in a plain wooden frame to an overall size of 12.25" x 17," Extremely Fine. Mrs. Stuart was responding to a collector who had requested a signature from her late husband and refusing his request. It reads, in part:
"I have in my possession no letter from my husband except private letters that are too sacred to give into any one's hands -- or to mutilate by cutting away the signature. Write to one of the other of the surviving Generals who were connected with the Army of the N. VA & you may possibly secure an autograph...".
Mrs. Stuart's signature measures a full 3.75" across and is undoubtedly much more rare than any of her famous husband's, Confederate General "Jeb" Stuart!
The Virginia Female Institute is now known as the Stuart Hall School, a Staunton, Virginia, co-educational school for students from pre-kindergarten to Grade 12, with a boarding program from Grades 8 to 12. Stuart Hall was founded by the Episcopal Church as the Virginia Female Institute in 1844. It was renamed in 1907 in honor of its most famous headmistress, Flora Cooke Stuart, the widow of Confederate cavalry leader Maj. Gen. J. E. B. Stuart.
James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart (February 6, 1833 - May 12, 1864) was a United States Army officer from Virginia who became a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War. He was known to his friends as "Jeb", from the initials of his given names. Stuart was a cavalry commander known for his mastery of reconnaissance and the use of cavalry in support of offensive operations. While he cultivated a cavalier image (red-lined gray cape, yellow sash, hat cocked to the side with an ostrich plume, red flower in his lapel, often sporting cologne), his serious work made him the trusted eyes and ears of Robert E. Lee's army and inspired Southern morale.
Stuart graduated from West Point in 1854, and served in Texas and Kansas with the U.S. Army. In 1855, he married Flora Cooke. His father-in-law was the "Father of the US Cavalry", Philip St. George Cooke. Stuart was a veteran of the frontier conflicts with American Indians and the violence of Bleeding Kansas, and he participated in the capture of John Brown at Harpers Ferry. He resigned, when his home state of Virginia seceded, to serve in the Confederate Army, first under Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley, but then in increasingly important cavalry commands of the Army of Northern Virginia, playing a role in all of that army's campaigns until his death.
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Abraham Lincoln Related: (Lots 64 - 74)
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Early American Guns & Weapons: (Lots 307 - 318) - Shipping Info
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