Jeb Stuart, Jr. (b. 1864) was a Confederate officer. He was the son of Jeb Stuart. Stuart first came to prominence at age of 17 as a lieutenant of infantry in Thomas Jackson's Army of Kentucky at the Siege of Louisville in the Second Mexican War. When the US Army of the Ohio under the command of General Orlando Willcox invaded Kentucky at Louisville, Stuart and his company distinguished themselves under fire when they held and repulsed Wilcox's flanking move. In the middle of the fighting, Stuart saved his company when its commander was wounded, and became a war hero just like his father, who was serving on the Mexican border. Right after the battle, Stuart personally met the Confederate Army's General-in-Chief, Jackson, who he had known his entire childhood.