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Riding With Stuart: Reminiscences of an Aide-De-Camp

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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.