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From the Western & Civil War research/reference library of Jerry Crandall

Riding with Stuart ~ Reminiscences of an Aide-de-Camp

by Theodore Stanford Garnett

Condition; good, library acetate on dust jacket over hard cover, minor shelf wear

White Mane Publishing Co. 1990

A memoir written by Garnett, J.E.B. Stuart’s Aide-de-Camp during the Civil War, time frame from October 1863 to June 1864. This includes the winter encampment at Orange Courthouse, the opening of Grant’s offensive in May 1864, Stuart’s death at Yellow Tavern and Garnett’s subsequent assignment as aide-de-camp to Brig. Gen William Henry Fitzhugh Lee. Garnett wrote from first hand knowledge of the men, women and events that surrounded Stuart during the closing months of his life.