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Shenandoah Valley. He defeated Banks at Winchester, and Fremont at Cross Keys. As senior major-general under Jackson he took a prominent part in the battles before Richmond, and in the subsequent opera- tions until Groveton, August 28, 1862, when he received a wound which necessitated amputation of the leg. He returned to the army in May, 1863, with the rank of lieu- tenant-general, and succeeded to the com- mand of the Second Corps, when Stonewall Jackson fell at Chancellorsville. He cleared the Shenandoah Valley of Federals, and was engaged in the invasion of Pennsylvania, and especially distinguished himself at Gettysburg, and again in the Wilderness, where at Spottsylvania his horse was shot under him, and he was so injured by the fall that he was obliged to leave the field. Later he commanded the Richmond de- fenses, and, after the evaculation was en- gaged at Sailor's Creek, where he was taken prisoner, and for four months was confined at Fort Warren. He died in Tennessee, January 25, 1872.

Garland, Samuel, Jr., born in Lynchburg Virginia, December 16, 1830, son of Maur- ice H. and Caroline M. (Garland) Garland, and grandson of Spottswood Garland, who was clerk of Nelson county, Virginia, for so many years ; attended a classical school in his native county for one year, then entered the Virginia Military Institute, where he helped to establish a literary society, and entered the University of Virginia in 184Q, remained two years, graduated with the de- gree of Bachelor of Law ; returned to Lynchburg, and engaged in the practice of his profession ; entered the Confederate army at the beginning of the war between

the states, having been a captain in the Home Guard of Lynchburg ; was promoted tc the colonelcy of the Third Virginia Regi- ment ; was made brigadier-general and giv- en command of four North Carolina regi- ments ; his command was heavily engaged at Seven Pines, Gaines' Mill, and Second Man- assas, and was the first to cross the river in the campaign into Maryland ; while hold- ing the pass near Boonsborough, just prior to the battle of Sharpsburg, his men were driven back, and in his effort to rally them he naturally exposed himself to the hottest f^.re, and though he succeeded in his efforts, was mortally wounded; his remains were brought back to Lynchburg, where he was buried, September 19, 1862; he married, in 1856, Eliza Campbell Meem, daughter of John G. Meem, Esq.

Garnett, Richard Brooke, nephew of J.'.mes Mercer Garnett (q. v.), and Robert Selden Garnett (q. v.) ; born in Virginia, in 1819; graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1841. He entered the army as second lieutenant, and served in the Florida war, and subsequently in the west. I^e was made first lieutenant in 1847, and later captain. He aided in quelling the Kansas disturbances in 1856-57; was en- gaged in the Utah expedition. He entered the Confederate service as major of artil- lery in 1861, and was promoted to brigadier- general the same year. He served in the Shenandoah Valley under Jackson, and at the battle of Kernstown commanded the Stonewall brigade. During and after the Maryland campaign he commanded Pick- ett's brigade, which he finally led at Gettys- burg, where he fell dead, shot from his horse in the midst of action. He died July 3. 1863.