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Jeb Stuart’s pistol
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This English-made, cased Tranter revolver was given to
Confederate Major General James Ewell Brown “Jeb”
Stuart by Heros von Borcke. Von Borcke was a Prussian
officer who took leave from his country’s services to
serve in the American Civil War. He served as Stuart’s
chief of staff, with the rank of major, until he was seriously
wounded at Middleburg, Virginia, in June 1863. That same
month, von Borcke gave this revolver to Stuart, in the
expectation that Stuart would have attained the rank of
lieutenant general. Stuart had hopes of receiving this
rank after commanding “Stonewall” Jackson’s
corps when that officer was mortally wounded during the
battle of Chancellorsville. Unfortunately he never obtained
that rank, but the inscription on the cover of the cased
revolver states: “LT. GEN J.E.B. STUART C.S.A. CULPEPPER,
VA JUNE 1863/ FROM HEROS VON BORCKE.” |
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Division of the History of Technology, Armed Forces
History
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Behring Center
Gift of the estate of William G. Renwick
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