Garonne

Haute, a department in the S. of France, embracing portions of ancient Gascony and Langue doc; area a square miles; pop. (1901) 439,- Garrard, Kenner, et officer born in Cincinnati, O.,in 1828, graduated at West Point in 1851; and while on frontier topographical duty in 1861 was made a prisoner by the Texan troops for 15 months, As colonel of volunteers during the Civil- War, he took part in the battles of Fred ericks burg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg, and received rapid promotion, He commanded the Second Cavalry Division of the Army of the Cumber land at Chattanooga, and in the invasion of Georgia; and the Second Division of the Sixteenth Army Corps in the battle of Nashville, the capture of Blakely, and the movement upon Mont- =. In 1865 he was brevetted rigadier-general in the regular army. He died in 1879.