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Wounded at Culloden. Walter Scott in his description of him states that he had been out in the ´15 and ´45. Given that Invernahyle would have been around eight years old in 1715, this is not that likely. However he was a Captain of the Appin Regiment in ´45 as the younger of Invernahyle. On the morning of Prestonpans he took part in a charge, where they stormed and captured a battery of four field-pieces. Invernahyle engaged in single combat Colonel Whitefoord of Ballochmyle, whose life he spared when it was in his hands, on condition of surrender. At Culloden Stewart was wounded, but made his escape. Colonel Whitefoord endeavoured to obtain his pardon from the Duke of Cumberland, and, when that was refused, asked that protection might at least be granted to his houses, wife, children, and property. This also was refused; but Whitefoord having thereupon requested to lay down his commission, it was finally conceded. Search nevertheless was made for Stewart, but he could not be found, and he was afterwards pardoned under the act of indemnity in 1747. By his wife Katherine, daughter of Robert Stewart, ninth of Appin, he had fifteen children, of whom Dugald succeeded him.
 
Stewart was a client of Sir Walter Scott´s father - who was also called Walter Scott and a lawyer, and his frequent guest in Edinburgh when Scott was a boy. Invernahyle told the young Sir Walter tales of ,the Jacobites.’ Sir Walter relates, that his tales ´‘were the absolute delight of my childhood. I believe there never was a man who united the ardour of a soldier and tale-teller—a man of “talk,” as they call it in Gaelic—in such an excellent degree, and he was as fond of telling as I was of learning; I became a valiant Jacobite at the age of ten years’ (Familiar Letters, i. 67). At Stewart´s request Scott visited him in 1786 or 1787, when he made his first acquaintance with the Highlands. Stewart died in 1795. Through thel connection with Walter Scott WS, Alexander Stewart of Invernahyle became an indispensable link between the vanishing world of the clans and its romantic recreation by Sir Walter Scott in the Waverley Novels.