The Passersby

The Battle of Yellow Tavern took place in May 1864 near Richmond, Virginia. Union cavalry under Major General Phil Sheridan outnumbered and outgunned Confederate cavalry led by Major General JEB Stuart, who was mortally wounded and died the next day.

Two characters refer to "the Civil War," a Northern term that Southern contemporaries would not have used. Even at the time when this show was first aired, many Southerners still considered the name Civil War to be offensive and preferred to say The War Between the States or The War of Northern Aggression. It was only after social upheaval and cultural reevaluations in the late 1960s that the term Civil War began to be generally accepted in the South.