General J. E. B. Stuart, the greatest of the Confederate
cavalry officers, who was mortally wounded in the fight with Sheridan's cavalry near Richmond, died at Richmond on Thursday, the 19th of May. He met death as bravely as he had always met the enemy, but though composed and master of himself at the last, he passed through a delirious stage in which he reviewed in broken sentences his successful and daring raids about M'Clellan's rear and on the Rapidan. In his last moments he distributed his horses to his staff officers, selecting them anxiously so as beet to snit their future riders. He left his golden spurs to the wife of General Lee, and his sword to his son. His wife did not arrive in time to.see him, but though eagerly counting the minutes in the hope that he might see her, he expressed his complete resignation to God's will, and died as he had fought, one of the blind, but dis- interested noble and devoted servants of an evil cause.
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