"General Consternation."
— J. E. B. Stuart
January 1, 1970
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Having conducted a successful cavalry raid across the at Forges Bridge, June 12, 1862, when congratulated upon his success, Stuart replied jokingly that he had left a general behind him, and when asked as to the identity of the unfortunate person, he replied thus. James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America (1896), Ch. IX, p. 119
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Having conducted a successful cavalry raid across the at Forges Bridge, June 12, 1862, when congratulated upon his success, Stuart replied jokingly that he had left a general behind him, and when asked as to the identity of the unfortunate person, he replied thus. James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America (1896), Ch. IX, p. 119