![]() ![]() The mission jumped off its tracks from virtually the moment it began when one unexpected event after another unfolded across Stuart's path. ![]() Richard Ewell's marching infantry corps and report on enemy activity. Lee's discretionary orders to advance into Maryland and Pennsylvania, where he was to screen Lt. Instead of finding glory and victory, Stuart reaped stinging criticism and substantial blame for one of the Confederacy's most stunning and unexpected battlefield defeats. Harnesses jingled and hooves pounded as Confederate cavalryman James Ewell Brown Stuart leads his three brigades of troopers on a ride that triggers one of the Civil War's most bitter controversies. ![]() June 1863, and the Gettysburg Campaign is in its opening hours.
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