With the establishment of the Stoneman Road, a day’s ride was eliminated from the trip. The new route was named after 48-year-old Col. George Stoneman, a Civil War veteran and career Army man ...

Grant in Appomattox Court House, Va. — fighting finally reached Rowan County. Maj. Gen. George Stoneman led his cavalry to Rowan County and raided Confederate supplies in what is now known as ...

Stoneman’s Raiders, like the legendary horseman, had been without its head, Gen. George Stoneman, who after having taken Salisbury, considered his main mission complete, and rode to headquarters ...

When the Southern states seceded from the Union, New York-born George Stoneman and Georgia-born Alfred Iverson Jr. crossed swords. One would capture the other during William Tecumseh Sherman’s ...