The daily bulletin. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn) 1862-1863, 1862-12-24
Eoapr nenry H. Garden.
HEsTER, Tenn, !
Dec. 10Th, 1862.

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In the list of those who died at Harrodsburg
from wounds received at the battle of Perry
vile, as furnished by the Louisville Journal,
l see the name of Henry H. Garden.
Captain Henry Ii. Garden was a citizen of
franklin county, and although not generally
known to the peopleo of the county, is deserving
Of some notice in the eourty paper. He had
settled in the county a few years only before
the war broke out, and being a remarkably
quiet and unobtrusive man, without any, the
least, disposition to become a public man. He
had formed comparatively but few acquaintan-
ces, but was known by his intimate a~cquain-
tances to be a man of cultivated intellect, as
we'll as of most excellent practical Common
sense. Though a young man, he was one Of q
very few men in the county who had received
anything like n military education and with
out making any parade, or asking anything
on account of his knowledge of military tao
tics, at the first call for troops when this unho-
y war was inaugurated, he entered the service,
joining one of the companies that was organ
lied for the 18th Tennessee Regiment. A SUI
bordinate office in the company (to-wit: Com
pany d., commanded by Capt. Thomas III.
Finch was given to Mr.. Garden. But the
trials and hardships Of that Regiment, through
the whole OF the summer, Fall and Winter of
last year, first Mt Bowling Green, then on the
line b"tw""n Ng!j TENNESSEE and Kentucky:
them dong that memorable Ito those who par
t."tPatcd in i) road to Rock Castle and back;
then tn FISHING Cree; and then to The line of
defense between Tennessee and Mississippi,
served to point out and mark him as a man
OF NO little worth; and upon the rc-orguniza.
ton Of the Regiment ut Shiloh, Garden, by
common. consent, was put in command of the
Company; and | it is not saying too much of
him to say that creIy day, trem that time to
the bloody field Of Perryville, he discharged
his whole duty as Captain. He was not only
skilled in his profession, and II good disciple
MARIAN, but he Was a working man., always at
his post, always prompting his men to the
cheerful discharge of duty, by the example Of
doing his duty himself. He knew well what
many me never learn-hc knew his place he
gave superior Office no trouble. His men
most cheerfullr obcyed hi orders, and yet he
was esteemed one of the most rigid Captains
in the Regiment.
At the battle Of Perryville he showed himself
as he had done upon the ensanguined field
bctore-a man made Of the sternest stuff
That he WAS fighting this war upon principle
principle that was comparatively latent until
called forth. This principle, us dear as life it.
self, only shows its strength and power upon
the battle field, when the roar of the encmy's
guns arouses it; then only is it that even enc
mics who see it are compelled to acknowledge
Its invincible character. ..
Capt. Garden is one Of the men, land upon
this account his name should be perpetuuted,)
who, lighting purely upon principle, nave made
u name for the people of the South that will live
in history and poetry as long Us heroism in de-
fence of home-in defence of old age-in de-
fence of women and children--is regarded
as Il cardinal virtue.
| have Il letter from the Colonel of the 18th
Tennessee Regiment, in which he speaks of
Captain Garden in the highest terms, and of
his loss to the Regiment as being irreparable.
The Colonel, who observed him closely up-
on the field, and up to the very time that he
fell, mortally wounded, and saw him lead his
men through n perfect shower of bullets, says
his conduct exhibited a heroic bravery that is
above all praise. He was severely wounded in
the arm, near the shoulder, at the very close
of the battle, and was left at Harrodsburg in
the care of a faithful friend, but died in q few
days. ne leaves a wife and several children,
who are entitled to our kindest consideration
May the God of the fat herless and the widow
preside over their d~estinies. e.
W.