"Go back! Go back! And do your duty, as I have done mine, and our country will be safe. Go back! Go back! I had rather die than be whipped."
— J. E. B. Stuart

January 1, 1970

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Order made after being mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern, May 11, 1864. Brink of Destruction: A Quotable History of the Civil War (2002), p. 167