GARRARD, KENNER (1828-79). An Ameri can soldier, born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He gradu ated at West Point in 1851, was on frontier duty and topographical duty for the most part until 1861, was captured in April, 1861, by Texan troops, and was on parole until exchanged in August, 1862. From September. 1861. to Septem ber, 1862, he was on duty at West Point, first as assistant instructor of cavalry, and after wards (December 5. 1861. to September 25, 1862) as commandant, with the ex officio rank of lieu tenant-colonel. He became a colonel of volunteers in September, 1862; served in the Rappahannock campaign and the Pennsylvania campaign, par ticipating in the battles of Fredericksburg, Chaneellorsville, and Gettysburg; was promoted to be brigadier-general of volunteers in July, 1863, and to be major in the regular (cavalry) service in November; served in the Rapidan campaign from October to December, 1863; and from December, 1863, to January, 1864, was in charge of the Cavalry Bureau at Wash ington. From February to December, 1864, he commanded the Second Cavalry Division of the Army of the Cumberland, participating in the various operations about Chattanooga and in the invasion of Georgia; and from December, 1864, to July, 1865, commanded the Second Di vision of the Sixteenth Army Corps, and par ticipated as such in the battle of Nashville, the capture of Blakely, and the movement upon Montgomery. In December, 1864, he was bre
vetted major-general of volunteers, and on March 13, 1865, he was brevetted brigadier-general in the regular army, and major-general in the regular army. lie commanded the District of Mobile from August to September, 1865, was mustered out of the volunteer service in August, 1865, acted as assistant inspector-general of the Department of the Missouri from March to No vember, 1866, when he resigned from the service, and subsequently was a member of the Platting Commission of Cincinnati from 1871 to 1879, and of the Sewage Commission of the same city from 1875 to 1879.