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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You need to read some history, rather than spout the latest catch phrases from your mom's group on Facebook. Summarizing Stuart as a traitor is incredibly naive.[/quote]

But is it inaccurate? Because I'm pretty sure it's accurate to call Stuart a traitor--that's what you are, by definition, when you lead an armed conflict on behalf of a secessionist cause.

You were right to suggest that I read up on General Stuart's history. I have learned all sorts of fascinating things from reviewing his Wikipedia page. For example, did you know that General Lee dispatched him to put down the abolitionist takeover of the armory at Harpers Ferry? Or that his father-in-law continued to serve the United States Army after Stuart had turncoated? Or that he changed his son's name so that his son would no longer have his father-in-law's namesake (a certain irony there)? Stuart's peers venerated him as a brilliant cavalry commander, but I'm guessing that his tactical brilliance wasn't why the new high school in Munson Hill was named after him in 1959--the year after Virginia's governor closed nine schools that had been ordered to integrate, and the same year that after segregationists lost federal and state court cases the schools were reopened, with some admitting handfuls of black students. 
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