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 “Flora Cooke Stuart: Life Without Jeb Stuart: The Stuart marriage before and after Jeb’s death”

By Teej Smith, of Pinehurst, NC

Thursday, June 9^th, 6:30 p.m.

Elks Lodge, 725 Franklin St., Huntsville

Optional chicken buffet at 5:30 for $8.95

Tennessee Valley Civil War Round Table

Visitors welcome.  256-539-5287 for more info.

To many Civil War students, the name “Jeb” Stuart brings images of a warrior, a fighter, a plumed knight, and a seeker of fame and adulation. To others, Stuart is a self-serving officer seeking rank and privilege. Did anyone really know the true Stuart?

James Ewell Brown Stuart was the Beau Ideal of the Confederacy, who said “I’d rather die than be whipped.”  Stuart was a bold dragoon who wrote poetry and cherished knightly honor and chivalrous attention to the women of his beloved South.

Our June speaker Tonia J. (“Teej”) Smith, will present the life of the lady who shared the events of the Civil War and preserved the Beau Ideal’s memory after his death from wounds received at Yellow Tavern, May 11, 1864.

Teej Smith, a native of North Carolina, has written articles for magazines such as North and South, America’s Civil War, and Civil War Times.

In addition to her writing and research, she has presented programs on various Civil War topics to local schools and to Civil War round tables.

Teej currently moderates an online Civil War discussion group. She is also the founder and past president of the Rufus Barringer Civil War Round Table in Pinehurst, NC. She now serves on the round table’s board of directors and is their program chairperson.

More Information: Flora Cooke Stuart: Life Without Jeb Stuart

In the spring of 1855, 19 year-old Flora Cooke, daughter of Colonel, later Union Brigadier General, Philip Cooke, a Virginian, met a dashing young cavalry officer named James Ewell Brown Stuart at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. After a whirlwind courtship the young couple was married at Fort Riley on November 14, 1855.

Their marriage ended eight and a half years later when Major General J.E.B. Stuart, C.S.A., was mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern on May 11, 1864. Flora would remain a widow for the next fifty-nine years of her life.

The speaker will cover the Stuart marriage before discussing the challenges Flora Cooke Stuart faced in her life without Jeb.

Presented by the Tennessee Valley Civil War Round Table, this program will be held at the Elks Lodge, 725 Franklin St., Huntsville, Thursday, June 9^th, 6:30 p.m. An optional chicken buffet is available at 5:30 for $8.95.  Visitors are welcome.  Phone 256-539-5287 for more info.

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Tour guides Rhonda Ford and Jacque Reeves will tell the stories of wealth, poverty, despair, freedom, and perhaps a ghost or two from a bygone era. The first tour, Thursday, June 23, 2011, departs from Huntsville’s Historic Huntsville Depot on Church Street at 10:00 a.m. and returns at 3:00 p.m. Reservations required due to limited seating, $60.00 per person. Call (256) 509-3940 or (256) 527-2488 and see mischiefandmayhem.biz for more information.

Please click on the link below for the full story.

http://blog.al.com/breaking/2011/04/civil_war_bones_tour_brings_ma.html

Hampton Inn & Suites Scottsboro

24747 John T. Reid Parkway
Scottsboro, Alabama, USA, 35768
1-256-259-5200

Thanks to JP for hosting this meeting.

Partners, make sure to bring any event listings or photos for the website.

Directions: Take I-24 to Exit 178 Highway 27 North to Exit 1-C  4^th Street.  Take the ramp down – merge left  and turn left at the first street on your left — Chestnut Street at the stoplight.  Go straight through 3 stoplights (road dead ends) and make a left on Riverfront Parkway.  The Riverboat is at the next light  on your right.  PARKING is on the left.  Approx. $1.00 for 2 hours.  Please DO NOT park in my motorcoach/bus parking lot.  You might get a $45.00 ticket.

IF you are going to eat lunch at 12:30pmEST “hosted by the Chattanooga Riverboat Staff” you MUST RSVP by Friday November 13 to hwalker@zmchotels.com.

We look forward to seeing everyone.  Remember you do not have to be a member to join us.  Please invite anyone that you think might be interested in joining our civil war marketing group.

We hope to be unveiling our website and much more.

Questions?  Please ask.

Shelda Rees J
150^th Committee Co-Chair

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Shelda Spencer Rees, CTP, TMP
Director of Tourism
Chattanooga Area CVB

2 Broad Street
Chattanooga TN  37402
423/424-4431
800/322-3344 ext. 3031
FAX 423/265-1630
ssrees@chattanoogacvb.com
www.Chattanoogafun.com