"The instant the [Stars and Stripes] appeared, Stuart ordered the charge, and at them we went like the arrow from a bow."
— J. E. B. Stuart

January 1, 1970

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Lt. William W. Blackford, 1st Virginia Cavalry. Brink of Destruction: A Quotable History of the Civil War (2002), p. 49