Building A Love For History

It was June of 1863.  The location was near Culpeper, Virginia.  The Union was still licking its wounds from its humiliating defeat at Chancellorsville.  The Army of the Potomac was command by Joseph Hooker.  The Army of the Northern Virginia by Robert E. Lee.  Gettysburg was not yet a part of the national vocabulary.

Lee's cavalry commander was the brash J.E.B Stuart, pictured here.  Early on the morning of June 9th, Stuart got a rude and unexpected awakening.