Person

Theophilus Toulmin Garrard (Clay County, Ky, farmer, commissioner, Ky rep & senator, and general (U.S.A.))

b. 1812-06-07 d. 1902-03-15

Clay County, Kentucky, farmer, politician, commissioner, and soldier. Clay County, Kentucky, native. Married to Lucy B. Lee Garrard. Father of Joseph Garrard, Gilbert Garrard, Isabella Garrard, Mary Garrard, Kate Garrard, Sophia Garrard, and Daniel Garrard. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Clay County from 1843 to 1844. Served in the 16th U.S. Infantry as captain in the U.S.-Mexican War. Commissioner of the Kentucky Union Railway Company in 1854. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Clay County from 1857 to 1861. Farmer in Clay County in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in Clay County in 1860. Served in the 7th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as colonel from September 22, 1861, to November 24, 1862. Promoted to brigadier general on November 29, 1862. Mustered out of service on April 4, 1864.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clay County, p. 12.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clay County, p. 249B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clay County, Precinct 1, p. 141A.

The Kentucky Union Railway Company, (Lexington, KY: Court House Square, 1883), 65.

Ezra J. Warner Jr., Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 168-69.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 141, 774.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Mexican War Veterans (Frankfort: John D. Woods, Public Printer, 1889), 158.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 748-49.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1867), 922.

Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-1965), KDLA, Film 7017530: All Counties, 1852-1965, Clark County, 1928, File #14479.

Citation

Garrard, Theophilus Toulmin. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214094 (November 12, 2026).

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