The son of Muscoe and Sarah Gatewood Garnett volunteered with the Essex Light Dragoons. The eighteen year old student became a private, answering to Captain Richard Cauthorne as part of Company F of the Ninth Regiment of Virginia Cavalry. When he enrolled on 1 June 1861 at Tappahannock, he had his horse valued at one-hundred and fifty dollars. His duty included bearing dispatches to Richmond by order of the Post Commandant. He was appointed Fifth Sergeant on 13 May 1862 and three weeks later was ill enough to be moved to a Richmond hospital. He died there of typhoid fever. The reverse of the photograph described him thusly; "He was a lovely, brave and dashing youth."
The son of Muscoe and Sarah Gatewood Garnett volunteered with the Essex Light Dragoons. The eighteen year old student became a private, answering to Captain Richard Cauthorne as part of Company F of the Ninth Regiment of Virginia Cavalry. When he enrolled on 1 June 1861 at Tappahannock, he had his horse valued at one-hundred and fifty dollars. His duty included bearing dispatches to Richmond by order of the Post Commandant. He was appointed Fifth Sergeant on 13 May 1862 and three weeks later was ill enough to be moved to a Richmond hospital. He died there of typhoid fever. The reverse of the photograph described him thusly; "He was a lovely, brave and dashing youth."
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