Riding With Stuart: Reminiscences of an Aide-De-Camp [Hardcover]

Theodore Stanford Garnett (Author), Robert J. Trout (Author, Editor)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 136 pages
• Publisher: White Mane Pub; 1St Edition edition (January 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0942597583
• ISBN-13: 978-0942597585
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,065,276 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Riding with Stuart, December 12, 2002

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K. Freeman (Apple Valley, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Riding With Stuart: Reminiscences of an Aide-De-Camp (Hardcover)

A memoir covering a short period of time, May '63 to June '64. Garnett was a clerk and courier, then on Stuart's and briefly Fitz Lee's staff. Written from diary entries in later life, the account keeps pausing as real life intrudes--sometimes for years at a time--and then resuming with marginal notes to the effect that Garnett can't believe it's been so long since he worked on this.

Garnett's memoir includes some decent first-person battle scenes, interesting descriptions of all Stuart's chargers, the feats to be performed in a nineteenth-century tournament, the Wilderness, and Yellow Tavern. It's a good source for anecdotes--perhaps the most special thing it contains is two verses of "Maryland, My Maryland," supposedly written by Stuart himself to his horse Maryland--they're really clever.