Background
STEUART, George Hume was born on August 24, 1828 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, United States. Son of George Hume Steuart. His father, who was descended from an old Maryland family, had been a general during the War of 1812.
STEUART, George Hume was born on August 24, 1828 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, United States. Son of George Hume Steuart. His father, who was descended from an old Maryland family, had been a general during the War of 1812.
Graduated from the United States Military Academy, 1848.
Steuart graduated thirty-seventh in a class of thirty-eight from the U.S. Military Academy in 1848 and served on the Texas frontier with the U.S. Army from 1848 until 1855. He was promoted to first lieutenant and captain of cavalry in 1855. Steuart had garrison duty in Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado before participating in the Cheyenne expedition of 1856, the Utah expedition of 1858, and the expedition against the Commanches in 1860.
He resigned from the army on April 22, 1861, and volunteered for service in the Confederate Army, entering as a captain of cavalry. He fought as colonel of the 1st Maryland Infantry under General Arnold Elzey at the battle of First Manassas. Promoted to brigadier general on March 6, 1862, he served with General Thomas J. Jackson in the Valley campaign of 1862 and was wounded at Cross Keys on June 8.
Disabled for some time, he later distinguished himself in the assault on Culp's Hill during the battle of Gettysburg and helped to hold the “bloody angle" at Spotsylvania, where he was taken prisoner in May 1864. Steuart was later exchanged and fought under Pickett during the Petersburg campaign and at the battle of Five Forks in April 1865. He surrendered at Appomattox and was later paroled.
After the war, he farmed in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.
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