Publisher's Synopsis
Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry tells the story of Civil War General James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart's ancestors who fought in the American Revolution. Alexander Stuart fought at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse with Nathaniel Greene. William Letcher lost his life at the hands of Tories on the Laurel Hill Farm in Ararat, Patrick County, Virginia, where over fifty years later J. E. B. Stuart was born. The Laurel Hill Farm known as Stuart's Birthplace is part of a 75 acre park preserving the history of the family that has fought in almost every war this country has participated.
