Stuart Tarlenton

Stuart and his brother Brent were raised on the Fairhill plantation with their four sisters and two brothers by their mother, Beatrice Tarleton, a renowned horse breeder. During his childhood, he frequently visited Tara and Twelve Oaks. Although he was engaged to India Wilkes, she soon bored him, and Stuart increasingly ignored his fiancée to spend time with Scarlett O'Hara. By 1861, Brent and Stuart had already been expelled from the Universities of Virginia, Alabama, South Carolina, and Georgia. Tom and Boyd followed them to each university, refusing to be educated by people who wouldn't accept their younger siblings. Both twins were very excited about the start of the war and enlisted along with their brothers. Upon discovering that Scarlett O'Hara was going to marry Charles Hamilton, Stuart threatened to shoot Charles. He realized that Scarlett was no longer an option for him and that he would have to settle for India. Everything changed when Boyd Tarleton died in Virginia, and his body was never found. The twins returned home for a period of leave, depressed. Stuart also injured his knee around this time. Brent and Stuart died near each other and their brother, Tom, at the Battle of Gettysburg (1863). All the boys (except Boyd, whose remains were never found) were buried in Fairhill. Between the graves of Brent and Stuart was a headstone with the inscription: “They were kind and pleasant in life, and in death they were not separated.”

Like all Tarletons, the twins had red hair. Stuart was identical to his brother Brent, and both had long legs, measuring 1.88 m (6 feet) tall. Their cheeks were tanned from playing in the sun. Both Brent and Stuart were well-mannered but boisterous. They got into many mischiefs, were energetic, and disobedient to their teachers. In their studies, both were lazy. Stuart and Brent were naive in their dreams of glorious battlefields and their excitement about the approaching war. Later, they became more realistic and serious about the situation after the loss of their brother.

Full name: Stuart Tarleton
Also known as: Stu
Larv Fairhill, Clayton County, Georgia
Spouse: India Wilkes (bride)
Birth: 1842
Death: July 1863 (aged 21)
Country:
James Tarleton
Beatriz Tarleton
Brothers:
Boyd Tarleton †
(older brother)
Tom Tarleton †
(older brother)
Camilla Tarleton
(older sister)
Henrietta Tarleton
(older sister)
Brent Tarleton †
(twin brother)
Elizabeth Tarleton
(younger sister)
Randa Tarleton
(younger sister)