Boyhood Adventures of General JEB Stuart
Civil War Hero
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About the Book
Boyhood Adventures of General JEB Stuart, A Civil War Hero describes some of the unwritten tales told by the descendants of neighbors and friends of the Stuart Family. JEB Stuart’s family farm, Laurel Hill, is in
This writing also gives a true picture as to how families lived and worked in the southern mountains before the Civil War. One story describes a family Christmas during the 1830’s. All the stories contain many adventures that a future General discovered while growing into manhood. The parents of James Ewell Brown taught him morals and values that shaped and followed him his entire life and created a foundation for a man that became an American hero for both the North and the South.
About the Author
Dean Brown grew up a few miles from the original birthplace of James Ewell Brown Stuart and played in the same woods and streams that James did. Brown is a member of the Sons of the Confederate Veterans served on the Board of Directors of the JEB Stuart Trust and was President for over four years. He was instrumental in getting Laurel Hill, Stuart’s birthplace, placed on the National Register of Historical places and listed as one of
Brown is a retired teacher of 41 years; most of his time spent as a teacher in prisons and alternative schools through out the South. He is a graduate of Appalachian State University of North Carolina.