Comments on: Major General George Stoneman Led the Last American Civil War Cavalry Raid

By: Talmadge Walker

Talmadge Walker — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:42:36 +0000

Betty,
There’s a pretty good 4-part article on the raid, including the foray into Virginia, in The North Carolina Historical Review, volumes 38-41 (1961) by Ina W. Van Noppen.

By: james metcalf /saluda nc

james metcalf /saluda nc — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:00:06 +0000

i live near howard gap ..and this small skirmish was the only skirmish seen in our county throughout the war between union and confedarate ,(renegades ,home guard,civilian ,rifts did take place )in the entire war ironically it was after lee surrendered to grant ,.,over 300 polk county men served in the war 200 losing thier lives to disease or blood

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:41:07 +0000

Both Stoneman and his aide-de-camp, Major Myles Keogh, had been imprisoned for three months in the year prior to this raid. It is little wonder that the destruction of Confederate prisons, especially in Salisbury, were part of Stoneman’s ’slash and burn ‘agenda.

By: Betty Ann Rice

Betty Ann Rice — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:06:09 +0000

” I would like to see the Bibliography of the article, “Major General George Stoneman Led the Last American Civil War Cavalry Raid” by Chris Hartley, published in May 1998. Am especially interested in Gen. Stoneman’s foray into Jacksonville, Virginia in early April 1865.