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- Theophilus Toulmin Garrard was born near at Union Salt Works Manchester, Kentucky on June 7, 1812. He represented Clay Countyin the State Legislature in 1843, 1844, 1857 and 1860 and had served as a captain in the Sixteenth Infantry Kentucky Volunteers in the Mexican War. He later went to California for the gold rush. He was named by President Lincoln as Colonel 7th Kentucky on September 22, 1861, he was promoted Brig. General USV on November 29,1862. He defeated the Confederate forces at Wild Cat Mountain in Laural County KY at the first battle of the war occuring in KY. He participated in the battles of Perryville and Richmond. He commanded the 1st Brigade / 9th Division / XIII Corps from February 4 to May 19 of 1863 and forces at Somerset (KY) lst Division / XXIII Corps from August 1863 to January 1864 and participated in the Vicksburg campaign. He was mustered out on April 4, 1864. Following the war he was a farmer and salt works owner. He was an uncle of General Kenner Garrard. Theophilus Garrard died March 15, 1902 in Clay County Kentucky.
"In the Civil war Gen. Theophilus Garrard, a cousin of Dr.Thomas Wyatt Tarleton's grandmother, commanded a division in the 13th army corps under Maj. Gen. W.B. Franklin in the Federal army, and there were many of the family relatives in both the Northern and Southern armies" . quoted from "Louisiana: Supplementary Volume of Contemporary Biographies, Volume III"
Title: Governor Garrard of Kentucky, His Descendents and Relatives
Author: Anna Russell Des Cognets
Publication: James M. Byrnes, Lexington KY, 1898
Reprinted by Higginson Book Co. PO Box 778, Salem MA 01970
Page: p 62
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1812 - 1902 (89 years)
