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Colonel Hugh A. Garland Monument Details

HUGH A. GARLAND,THEIR SON
KILLED NOV. 30, 1864 AT THE BATTLE OF FRANKLIN
COMMANDING 1ST/4TH MISSOURI INFANTRY

Colonel Hugh A. Garland, C.S.A. (1835-1864) Born in 1835 in Lynchburg, Virginia, Garland was working as a lawyer in St. Louis in 1861.  As captain of Company F (the Jackson Grays), 2d Regiment, Missouri Volunteer Militia, he was among those taken prisoner at Camp Jackson on May 10, 1861.  After his parole, Garland joined the Confederate service and became a captain in the 1st Missouri Infantry, participating in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Grand Gulf, Port Gibson, and Champion’s Hill.  Elected major on May 26, 1862, he advanced to lieutenant colonel on May 1, 1863.  After the surrender of Vicksburg, Garland was on recruiting duty at Richmond until February 1864, when he returned to field service.  He succeeded to command of the consolidated 1st/4th Missouri Infantry after the death of Colonel Amos Riley at New Hope Church, Georgia, in May 1864.  Colonel Garland was killed in the assault on Franklin, Tennessee, on November 30, 1864. He was buried on the battlefield and later reinterred at Bellefontaine Cemetery.     (Block 75, Lot 244)

(Narrative from William Winter’s “The Civil War in St. Louis”)



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