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Map showing troop positions before the Battle of Fredericksburg, with Confederate commands (Longstreet, Lee, Jackson, Stuart) in red on the west side of the Rappahannock River, and Union commands (Burnside, Sumner, Hooker, Franklin) in blue on the east side. The city of Fredericksburg and pontoon bridges crossing the river are marked, along with key roads and the railroad to Richmond.

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Anniversary information added.		May 08, 2026
	Anniversary information added.		Feb 02, 2026
	Add new Web site: LSU Scholarly Repository - Cavalryman of the Lost Cause: A Biography of J.E.B. Stuart.	Aakanksha Gaur	Dec 28, 2024
	Add new Web site: University of Mary Washington - The Crawley Great Lives Lecture Series - J.E.B. Stuart.	Gloria Lotha	Jul 09, 2024
	First paragraph modernization.	Encyclopaedia Britannica	Apr 10, 2024
	Add new Web site: National Park Service - James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart.	Gloria Lotha	Apr 04, 2022
	Add new Web site: Mr.Nussbaum - Jeb Stuart For Kids � The Eyes of the Confederacy.	Thinley Kalsang Bhutia	Dec 21, 2016
	Add new Web site: The Civil War - Biography of J. E. B. Stuart.	Grace Young	May 08, 2014
	Add new Web site: HistoryNet - Jeb Stuart.	Vivek Abhinav	Feb 04, 2013
	Add new Web site: American Battlefield Trust - Biography of J. E. B. Stuart.	Vivek Abhinav	Feb 04, 2013
	Add new Web site: United States History - Biography of J.E.B. Stuart.	Vivek Abhinav	Feb 04, 2013
	Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of James Ewell Brown Stuart.	Gloria Lotha	Apr 04, 2011
	Added new Web site: The Ohio State University - Biography of James Ewell Brown.	Gloria Lotha	Jan 28, 2009
	Added new Web site: Military History Encyclopedia on the Web - Biography of James 'Jeb' Stuart.	Gloria Lotha	Jan 28, 2009
	Added new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of James (Jeb) Stuart.	Gloria Lotha	Jan 28, 2009
	Added new Web site: Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War - Biography of James Ewell Brown.	Gloria Lotha	Jan 28, 2009
	Added new Web site: History Central - Biography of James Ewell Brown Stuart.	Gloria Lotha	Jan 28, 2009
	Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - History - Biography of J. E. B. Stuart.	Shiveta Singh	Nov 06, 2008
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	May 04, 1999