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S T UA RT ’ S R I DE ★ ★ ★ Passing through the Lines 1 8 6 2 P E N I N S U L A CivilWarTrails.org C A M P A I G N In May 1862, Union Gen. George B. McClellan led the Army of the Potomac up the Peninsula to the gates of Richmond. Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee assumed command of the Army of Northern Virginia in June and began planning a counterattack. On June 12, Gen. J.E.B. Stuart led 1,200 cavalrymen on a daring 3-day reconnaissance and discovered that the Union right flank was unsecured. Stuart’s “Ride around McClellan” gave Lee the vital information he needed to launch the offensive known as the Seven Days’ Battles on June 26. The fortifications directly in front of you are part of the outer defensive line that protected the Confederate capital of Richmond. At 5 A.M. on June 12, 1862, Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart and 1,200 cavalrymen, including several Gen. J.E.B. Stuart Gen. Robert E. Lee who knew the local roads, left their camps on the Mordecai and Young farms Courtesy Library of Congress Courtesy Library of Congress just behind you and passed through the line here. The newly appointed Confederate commander, Gen. Robert E. Lee, had ordered Stuart’s cavalry to probe the Federal army for weaknesses and to locate the positions of the Union ★ You Are Here flanks. Riding north on the Brook Turnpike (to your right), the column passed through the outer defenses at this point to begin what became Stuart’s famed ride that circled Union Gen. STUART’S RIDE ROUTE George B. McClellan’s army. In the spring of 1862, before Lee’s counterattack, Confederate engi- Richmond defenses, 1862, showing Brook Road fortification – Courtesy Library of Congress neer Maj. Walter H. Stevens strengthened Richmond’s fortifications, largely with slave labor. Lee utilized the terrain and the strong earthworks to reduce the number of soldiers needed to protect the city at any given location and to free more men for combat. The lines were attacked and abandoned to the Federal army three times during the war. Stuart’s love of music was legendary. Musicians often accompanied Stuart both on the march and in camp. Reportedly, on June 12, 1862, infantrymen watching Stuart’s riders leave these outer defenses asked how long they would be gone. Quoting a popular song of the time, “Kathleen Mavourneen,” Stuart responded, “It may be for years, and it may be forever.” The rest of the column soon joined in. Songs written to glorify the exploits of Stuart’s 1862 raids soon appeared, including “Jine the Cavalry” and “Riding a Raid.” Richmond artist Ernest Crehen and publisher J. W. Randolph created the lithograph cover for the sheet music for the latter song. 646 AS HL AND Hanover Tavern 1 623 95 301 33 250 64 295 625 Meadow Farm Museum You Are Here Enon Church Yellow Tavern (J.E.B. Stuart Monument) Totopotomoy Creek Polegreen Church Old Church Bethesda Church 360 PA 606 Cold Harbor Old Cold Harbor Crossroads Gaines‘ Dispatch Mill Station Beaver Dam Creek RI CH MON D 360 Haw’s Shop Dabbs House M UN KEY RIV ER Baltimore Store (New Kent Winery) 33 60 155 Long Bridge White Oak Swamp 5 295 Deep Bottom (Landing) Glendale Malvern Hill 95 Stuart’s Ride Site Other Civil War Trails Site New Kent C.H. 64 Seven Pines 1 301 CH 60 IC 106 Safe among Friends and Family (Bethany Church) K AH OM Samaria Church Rowland’s (Edgewood) INY RI Charles City C.H. Shirley Harrison’s Landing Westover JAMES RIVER HO PE WELL VE Wilcox’s Landing R Sherwood Forest 5 Courtesy Museum of the Confederacy