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X'IRGIXIA rilOGRAPHY
for (irdnanco tluty ; afterwards to captain,
and was assigned to the charge of the gen-
eral reserve ordnance train of the Army of
Northern Virginia. He was paroled at Ap-
pomattox Court House, \'irginia, Ajiril 9,
1865, being then ordnance officer of Grimes's
(formerly Rodes') Division, Second Corps,
Army of Northern Virginia. He taught
from 1865 to 1867 at Midway School, Char-
lottes\ille, \'irginia, as professor of Greek
in the Louisiana State University (1867),
and at the Episcopal High School of Vir-
ginia (,1867-69). He passed the year of
1869-70 at the universities of Berlin and
Leipzig, studying classical philology, and on
his return was chosen principal of St. John's
College, Annapolis, Maryland, and profes-
sor of history and the English language and
literature, where he remained for ten years
(1870-801. He resigned his position at St.
Jc'hn's College in 1880, and conducted for
two years a university school at EUicott
City, ^L•^ryland (1880-82), when he was
chosen professor of the English language
and literature in the University of Virginia.
Here he remained for fourteen years, the
l.'ist three years as professor of the English
language alone, when he resigned, and filled
a temporary vacancy in the chair of English
literature at the Woman's College of Balti-
more for one year (1896-97), since which time
he has been taking private pupils in the city
of Baltimore, and doing literary work. He
has served as vice-president of the Modern
Language Association of America (1887-88),
and of the Spelling Reform Association, and
at president of the American Dialect So-
ciety (1890-91), and of the American Philo-
logical Association (1893-94). The degree of
Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by
St. John's College in 1874. While a student
at the University of \'irginia he assisted in
organizing the Young Men's Christian As-
sociation, and was its president for one
term ; was a member of the Jefferson So-
ciety, the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity,
the University Cricket Club, and the "South-
em Ciuard," which organization he accom-
p;.nied to Harper's Ferry on the secession of
"Virginia, April 17, 1861. While a professor
in the University of X'irginia, he was a
member of the vestry of Christ Church,
Charlottesville, for ten years : often repre-
sented that church in the \^irginia diocesan
councils, and was a delegate from the dio-
cese of Virginia to the Triennial Convention
of the Protestant Episcopal church at Min-
neapolis in 1895, and in Washington, D. C,
in 1898. In 1900 he became, by invitation, a
niemlier of .Mpha Chapter. Phi Betta Kappa,
William and Mary College. Virginia, the
]iarent chapter in the Lniited States, from
which all otlicr cha])ters trace their origin.
He is editor of "Selections in English Prose
from Elizabeth to \'ictoria" (1891);
"Hayne's Speech to which \\'ebster Re-
plied" (1894), "Macbeth" (1897), and
"Burke's Speech on Conciliation with
America" (1901). He is the author of a
translation of "Beowulf" (1882), often re-
printed, of "Elene and other Anglo-Saxon
Poems" (1889), reprinted; a "History of the
University of \'irginia," prepared in 1899,
and (if numerous essays and reviews in var-
ious periodicals. He married, April 19,
1871, Kate Huntington Noland, daughter of
the late Maj. Burr Powell Noland, of Mid-
dleburg. Loudoun county. Virginia, and had
one son, James Mercer Garnett, Jr., a lawyer
of Baltimore, Maryland. He still resides in
i'laltimore, ^farvland.
