This illustration dates to the 1890s and shows James Ewell Brown Stuart’s cavalry cutting telegraph wires. Srtuart, known as “Jen,” was a Army officer and later a major general and cavalry commander for the Confederate States of America during the Civil War (1861-65). Here, his troops cutting telegraph wires

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