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Confederate General James Ewell Brown “J.E.B.“ Stuart was major general—chief of cavalry—in the Army of Northern Virginia, Confederate States of America.

Confederate General Robert E. Lee showed his skill of organization as he prepared 40,000 troops for battle.

Jefferson Davis was the first and only president of the Confederate States of America and he resided in Richmond during his term in the White House of the Confederacy in downtown Richmond.

The Civil War changed Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson from a largely unknown teacher at VMI into one of the most famous men in the world. 

Confederate naval officer and explorer Matthew Fontaine Maury was known as the “Pathfinder of the Seas.“

Richmond native, tennis champion and humanitarian Arthur Ashe Jr. was the first African-American male to win a Grand Slam event and was an active civil rights supporter.