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WilIiam Robertson Garrett was born on April 12, 1839, in Williamsburg, Virginia. He was the son of Dr. Robert Major and Susan Comfort (Winder) Garrett.
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A history of the United States and Confederate States during secession and the American Civil War from the Southern point of view.
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It is not for the victor in the contest to write the story of the defeated or to pass upon the views and motives that controlled their action. With particular force does this apply to the civil war in America of 1861-1865. How can the Northern writer tell the story impartially? Generations of teaching by the fathers of the government, who had formed and administered the supreme law, had imbued the people of the South with firmly fixed views that were not to be shaken by newly grown theories of a section which by intrinsic changes had become hostile to much of what had been taught by the framers of the original constitution of the United States. The leaders of the Southern people represented the strength of the beliefs handed down by the fathers of the government, and they could not see unmoved the changes sought to be engrafted upon a constitution they had so long held sacred. The high principles that actuated them, the sincerity of their beliefs, and their unfaltering devotion to the Constitution as they understood it—and "they did understand it—were neither known nor appreciated by those who so bitterly opposed them. It is for this reason that the time has not yet come when a history of the war between the States can be written from the victor's viewpoint that will be just, or that can show the motives by which the people of the South were dominated. For the modern reader to really understand this time in history, an attempt must be made to understand where the Southern point of view was coming from. This book quite ably states it.
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History of the first legislative assembly ever convened in America. The father of representative government in America
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William Robertson Garret
Edit ProfileEducation
Garrett was a Phi Beta Kappa student at the College of William and Mary where in 1858, he received the M. A. degree. Following his graduation, he studied law at the University of Virginia. His practice of law at Williamsburg was interrupted by the outbreak of the Civil War.
Career
Garrett volunteered as a private in April 1861 and was shortly elected captain of the Williamsburg-Lee Artillery.
In this capacity, he served in the Peninsular campaign and fought in the battle of Williamsburg with such bravery as to win the official commendation of Gen. J. E. B. Stuart and Gen. James Longstreet. Upon the expiration of his enlistment he assisted in raising a battalion of partisan rangers in middle Tennessee of which he was made adjutant.
This battalion in 1863, became a part of the 11th Tennessee Regiment of Cavalry and served under Gen. Forrest, then under Gen. Wheeler, and again under Gen. Forrest. Garrett was promoted to the captaincy of Company B of this regiment in February 1865.
A few weeks later he surrendered with it at Gainesville, Alabama. The remainder of his life was devoted to educational work. Returning to Williamsburg he became master of the grammar school of the College of William and Mary.
In 1868, he removed to Giles County, Tennessee, where he began a five-year term as president of Giles College and principal of Cornersville Academy.
He was successively superintendent of schools for Giles County (1873 - 75), associate principal and professor of mathematics in Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville (1875 - 91), state superintendent of public instruction (1891 - 93), and principal of Garrett Military Academy (1893 - 95).
In 1895, he was appointed a professor of American history and in 1899 dean of Peabody College for Teachers, holding both positions until his death. In the course of his long residence in Tennessee, he became an increasingly important figure in the educational life of the state and of the South.
Achievements
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Garrett gave much time to the organization and development of teachers’ institutes in middle Tennessee and was at various times president of the Tennessee State Teachers’ Association, president of the Tennessee Public School Officers’ Association, secretary of the Inter-State Teachers’ Association, one of the editors of the Southwestern Journal of Education, and in 1891 president of the National Education Association. He organized the Watkins Institute Night School in Nashville, founded for the benefit of laboring men. In his later years, his time was occupied with teaching and writing history. He edited the American Historical Magazine from its establishment in 1896 until Peabody College in 1902 discontinued support of it.
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The Civil War from a Southern Standpoint: Annotated (The History of North America) (Volume 14)
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The Father of Representative Government in America
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The History Of North America: The Civil War From A Southern Standpoint
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History of the first legislative assembly ever convened in America. The father of representative government in America
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The Civil War from a Southern Standpoint, Vol. 14 (Classic Reprint)
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History of Tennessee, Its People and Its Institutions (Classic Reprint)
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Southwestern Journal Of Education, Volume 8...
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Southwestern Journal Of Education, Volume 5
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The Civil War from a Southern Standpoint: Annotated (The History of North America) (Volume 14)
Connections
On November 12, 1868, Garrett married Julia Flournoy Batte of Pulaski.
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