On rare occasions, battlefield heroics catapult relatively obscure nobodies into stardom and celebrity. On rarer occasions, the hero performs his deeds with such theatrical flair that both national and international audiences know not just his exploits but the personality in which he performed them.
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Southern Soldiering
That title alone is enough to make one imagine Stuart’s daring, gray-clad legions of cavaliers, dashingly riding on McClellan’s rear with raised glinting sabers and pressed plumed hats as if the fate of the contest depended on showmanship in equal parts to generalship.
The Cavalier's Quill 
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