Lord Wolseley said of Lee, "He was the ablest general, and to me seemed the greatest man I ever conversed with; and yet I have had the privilege of meeting Von Moltke and Prince Bismarck…General Lee was one of the few men who ever seriously impressed and awed me with their natural, their inherent greatness.”
"Stuart was the ideal cavalryman of the South — the perfect embodiment of the Cavalier spirit that had come down from the English Civil Wars through the Virginia gentry. Gay, reckless, brilliant... He never lost the lightness of heart that was his birthright. He sang as he rode, he laughed under fire." — Philip Alexander Bruce, *The Virginia Plutarch*
Four centuries from Naseby to Yellow Tavern, and the temperament never changed.