Franklin L. Stuart was born around 1840 in North Carolina to Nathaniel T. Stuart and Jane Caroline Robinson. His father was a farmer who owned $212 of real estate in 1860. Stuart grew up and attended school in Lincolnton, North Carolina, before beginning work as a farmer. He enlisted in the Confederate army on May 23, 1861, and mustered in as a private in Company B of the 23^rd North Carolina Infantry later that day. The regiment took part in the Second Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Antietam, the Battle of Fredericksburg, and the Battle of Chancellorsville. He was severely wounded on May 3, 1864, at Chancellorsville, and he spent the next few months in a series of hospitals. He died in April 1865.

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