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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Riding with StuartBy K. FreemanA 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.