Stuart taught school for several years in Virginia and also taught at Randolph-Macon College prior to moving to Louisiana in 1859 with his brother, Charles B. Stuart. He was Professor of Ancient Languages and Mathematics at Mansfield Female College, a Methodist school where his brother also taught and was president at the beginning of the war. He was commissioned as a 1st lieutenant in Co. B of the 1st battalion of LA Infantry (the Young Greys) on March 5, 1863, and was promoted to captain on May 19, 1863. In 1864, the company became Co. C of the 2nd LA State Guards Cavalry Battalion.
After the war, he returned to Mansfield and became principal of the "Male School, Classical and Mathematical." The school closed in 1872 and Stuart moved to Shreveport, LA in 1873 and entered the insurance business. He died later in 1873 from yellow fever.
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