Perry County AlArchives Biographies.....Garrott, Isham Warren 1816 - June 17, 1863
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Author: "Alabama: Her History, Resources, War Record and Public Men From 1540 to 1872,: by Willis Brewer, published 1872, page 494-495

Isham Warren Garrott was a citizen of Perry.  He was a native of North 
Carolina, and was born in 1816.  Educated at Chapel Hill, and admitted to the 
bar, he was thrown upon his own resources for a future, as his parents were not 
wealthy.  He came to Alabama, and located at Greenville; but the following year 
came to Marion, where he was associated soon after with James Phelan, esq., 
late C. S. Senator from Mississippi.  He was steadily successful, and soon won 
the favor of the public.  From 1845 to 1849 he represented Perry in the lower 
house of the legislature.  Subsequently he was associated in the practice of 
law with Judge Brooks.  In 1860 he was a Breckinridge elector.  When the State 
seceded he was appointed by Governor Moore commissioner to North Carolina to 
ask the legislature of that State to co-operate in the secession movement.  
This task performed, he returned and raised the 20th Alabama, with the 
assistance of Gen. Pettus of Dallas, and was commissioned colonel of it.  
Throwing his whole soul into the cause, and devoting his exclusive attention to 
his command, he soon developed remarkable military talent.  Port Gibson was the 
first battle-field to prove his cool skill in handling his regiment, and at Big 
Black he behaved with equal credit.  He was shut up in Vicksburg, and shared 
the horrors of that siege, participating at the outposts, with the ardor of a 
patriot, in all its dangers.  It was on the 17th of June that he asked a 
private to allow him to discharge his piece.  The soldier assented, and Gen. 
Garrott brought the gun to his shoulder and was taking aim when a ball entered 
his left breast.  He fell dead, without uttering a word.  His remains are 
interred at Vicksburg.  Four days before the lines were closed around 
Pemberton’s army, his commission as brigadier general was forwarded from 
Richmond.

Gen. Garrott was of the portly appearance which betokens full habits.  The 
character of his mind was solid and practical, and he was capable of prolonged 
mental exertion.  In the pursuit of an object he was untiring, and relentless 
save when a victor.  He owed his success rather to persistent effort than to 
any extraordinary natural gifts.  But the admirable qualities of his head were 
eclipsed by the more striking attributes of his heart.  The good and generous 
in human nature were blended in him; and he was the soul of honor and manly 
fidelity.  He married a daughter of Dr. Fletcher of Perry, and left three minor 
sons and a daughter.


Additional Comments:
Isham Warren Garrott married Margaret M. Fletcher on January 8, 1845 in Perry 
County.

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