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Stuart suffered great pain as an ambulance took him to Richmond to await his wife's arrival at the home of Dr. Charles Brewer, his brother-in-law. As he was being driven from the field in an ambulance wagon, Stuart noticed disorganized ranks of retreating men and called out to them his last words on the battlefield: "Go back, go back, and do your duty, as I have done mine, and our country will be safe. Go back, go back! I had rather die than be whipped."<ref name="McClellan, Henry B 1994">McClellan, Henry B. I Rode with Jeb Stuart: The Life and Campaigns of Maj. Gen. Jeb Stuart. Edited by Burke Davis. New York: Da Capo Press, 1994. {{ISBN|978-0-306-80605-6}}. First published 1958 by Indiana University Press.</ref>
Stuart ordered his sword and spurs be given to his son. As his aide Major McClellan left his side, Confederate President Jefferson Davis came in, took Stuart's hand, and asked, "General, how do you feel?" Stuart answered "Easy, but willing to die, if God and my country think I have fulfilled my destiny and done my duty."<ref name="McClellan, Henry B 1994" /> His last whispered words were: "I am resigned; God's will be done."
He died at 7:38 p.m. on May 12, the following day, before Flora Stuart reached his side. He was 31 years old. Stuart was buried in Richmond's [[Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond, Virginia)|Hollywood Cemetery]]. Upon learning of Stuart's death, General Lee is reported to have said that he could hardly keep from weeping at the mere mention of Stuart's name and that Stuart had never given him a bad piece of information.<ref>Smith, p. 244; Wert, pp. 357–62.</ref> John Huff, the private who had fatally wounded Stuart, was killed in action just a few weeks later at the [[Battle of Haw's Shop]].
Flora wore the black of mourning for the remainder of her life, and never remarried. She lived in [[Saltville, Virginia]], for 15 years after the war, where she opened and taught at a school in a log cabin. She worked from 1880 to 1898 as principal of the Virginia Female Institute in [[Staunton, Virginia]], a position for which Robert E. Lee had recommended her before his death ten years earlier.<ref>Lee had been a member of the board of visitors of the school in 1865–70 when he was president of Washington College in nearby Lexington, Virginia. He also had sent two daughters to the school for their educations. Wert, p. 368 for recommendation.</ref> In 1907, the institute was renamed [[Stuart Hall School]] in her honor. Upon the death of her daughter Virginia, from complications in childbirth in 1898, Flora resigned from the institute and moved to [[Norfolk, Virginia]], where she helped Virginia's widower, Robert Page Waller, in raising her grandchildren.
She died in Norfolk on May 10, 1923, after striking her head in a fall on a city sidewalk. She is buried alongside her husband and their daughter, Little Flora, in [[Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond, Virginia)|Hollywood Cemetery]] in Richmond.<ref>Wert, pp. 368–69.</ref>
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{{blockquote|Stuart had been the Confederacy's [[knight-errant]], the bold and dashing cavalier, attired in a resplendent uniform, plumed hat, and cape. Amid a slaughterhouse, he had embodied chivalry, clinging to the pageantry of a long-gone warrior. He crafted the image carefully, and the image befitted him. He saw himself as the Southern people envisaged him. They needed a knight; he needed to be that knight.<ref>Wert, p. 370.</ref>}}
Stuart's birthplace, Laurel Hill, located in [[Patrick County, Virginia]], was purchased by the J.E.B. Stuart Birthplace Preservation Trust, Inc., in 1992 to preserve and interpret it.<ref>[http://www.freestateofpatrick.com/Laurelhill Laurel Hill website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090923232809/http://www.freestateofpatrick.com/Laurelhill |date=2009-09-23 }}.</ref> In December 2006, a personal Confederate battle flag, sewn by Flora Stuart, was sold in a [[Heritage Auctions|Heritage]] Auction for $956,000 (including buyer's premium), a world-record price for any Confederate flag
[[File:JEB Stuart Monument 2020-05-31.jpg|thumb|The [[J. E. B. Stuart Monument]], defaced during [[George Floyd protests in Richmond, Virginia|protests in Richmond, Virginia]], was removed on July 7, 2020]]
The [[J. E. B. Stuart Monument]], a statue of Stuart by sculptor [[Frederick Moynihan]], used to occupy a space on Richmond's [[Monument Avenue]] at Stuart Circle. Originally dedicated in 1907, it was removed on July 7, 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Richmond removes statue of Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/richmond-removing-statue-confederate-gen-jeb-stuart-71646648|access-date=2021-10-25|website=ABC News|language=en}}</ref>
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