Brothers in Arms: J.E.B. Stuart and His Brothers in the Civil War |
History Program
Sunday, Feb 05
3:00 PM
Location: Martinsville-Henry County Heritage Center & Museum
Historian and author Thomas D. Perry will present Brothers in Arms: J.E.B. Stuart and His Brothers in the Civil War on Sunday, February 5, at 3:00 PM in the Historic Henry County Courthouse and Heritage Center and Museum, located at 1 East Main Street in Uptown Martinsville. Perry discusses the different roles J.E.B. Stuart and his brothers, William Alexander Stuart and John Dabney Stuart, played in the Southern war effort and also other men from J.E.B. Stuart's life who served in the Civil War. William Alexander Stuart ran the saltworks in Saltville, Virginia, one of the few resources for the vital element of salt for the Confederacy. John Dabney Stuart served as a physician in the 54th Virginia Infantry, mainly in Tennessee.
