The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-16

ment, G. S. A, then a veteran regiment IN
lrdcy brigade, in Mississippi, and was
Snottiy after appointed sergeant-maior.
Itls nrst battle was Port Gibson. where
Gen. Tracy was killed, and Gen. Stephen
u. Lee assigned to the command of This
crack brigade, composed of the Twentieth,
IWehty-thlrd' Thirtieth Thry-frst and
forty-slXth Alabama Regiments
lie was in all the succeeding battles of
mat campaign, including Bakers creek.
Big Black river and the siege of Vicks-
purs. During the siege he was acting
auJulant OF his regiment until the sur
render of Pemberton's army on July
1913, when he was paroled. The brigade
was reformed in a few weeks, at Demopo-
lis. Ala, where, by orders he was APP
pointed first lieutenant Of COMPANY T.
lrty-hrst Alabama, and assigned to duty
as acting adjutant Of the regiment. This
promotion was for distinguished gaUautrv
on several fields
soon after the brigade was exchanged,
re-enterng the service under the command
OF Brig. Gen. Edward w Pettus Zone of
the present senators from Alabama and
reported TO Gen. Bragg. then before Chat
tanooSa, for duty. Lieut.. Garrard took
part in the battles of Lookout Mountain
and Missionary Ridge, and the other lesser
conflicts of that campaign, and went into
winter quarters, at Dalton Ga, with his
command
He served in the ensuing campaign of
the Army of Tennessee. under Gen Joe
Johnston, from Dalton to Atlanta taking
part in the battles of Rocky Face Ridge,
Resaca, New Hope Church, Pine Noun
tam, Peach Tree Creek, the siege of At
lanta, Jonesborough, and the several
minor combats
Under Hood he served in the succeeding
campaign through North Alabama and
Tennessee, being then assigned to duty on
the staff Of Brig. Gen. Pettus, as acting
assistant inspector general. taking part in
the battles of Columbia, Franklin, and
Nashville. On the retreat from Nashville,
two brigades. Gen. Pettus Gala bama) and
Cummings Georgia.. under Maj. Gen.
Stevenson, constituted the rear guard of
Hoods army and during the first day out
from Franklin, fought in an open couu-
try, several times in hollow square forma-
ton, receiving and successfully repellins
charges made on all sides by the cavalry
of the enemy
The army crossed the Tennessee river
on pontoon bridge and halted at Tupelo,
Miss, whence it proceeded in box cars,
to Branchville S. c.. where it disembarked
and took the field again. for the last cam
paign. Lieut.. Garrard was still serving
on the brigade staff. At the battle of
paign, Pettus' brigade was led by the
General on horseback, with his staff also
mounted, and charged over two lines OF
entertainments, on which occasion, Gen.
Pettus was wounded in the leg, and his
aid-de-camp killed.
Shortly thereafter the army was reor
gained, the regiments being, by orders
of Gen. Johnston, consolidated, as they
were skeletons in numbers, thus throw
f--fy off
regiments including the Thirty-frst Ala
bama were consolidated, and made the
new Twenty-third Alabama. Lieut. Gar
rard being made captain of Company Is,
made up of four companies, A, G, H and
I of the old Thirty-frst He surrendered
with Johnstons army in May, 1860 at Sal
sbury, N. c., and from that point rode on
horseback to his home at Columbus, Ga.
He became a private in the Savannah
Volunteer Guards Aug. 10, 1873, and was
commissioned lieutenant colonel of the
battalion by Gov. Alexander H. Stephens,
Dec. %. 1882 He has commanded the bat
talon ever since.
In 1898 he served as lieutenant colonel
Second Georgia Volunteer Infantry, U. S.
V, in the Spanish war Mustered out
of the service in the latter part of No
vember. 1898, and, returning to Savannah,
he resumed command of the Guards bat
talon, the active command of which ne
nov resigns, to perform with more dill
gcnce and devotion a more arduous, if less
prominent, duty in its behalf
Three retired officers of the battalion
we're last night placed on the honorary
list. Lieut. Col w. T. Hopkins, First
Lieut.. Hal H. Bacon and Second Lieut..
Walter c. Hartridge are the officers to
whom was rendered this expression Of
the admiration and esteem in which their
comrades hold them. Col. Hopkins retire
ment is due to his appointment as lieu
tenant colonel and assistant inspector
General of the state forces and that of
Lieuts. Bacon and Hartridge to their
resignation of their commissions in
Company of which they were the subal-
.ern officers.