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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.
