GARLAND, (Hon.) Henry L., St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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HON. HENRY L. GARLAND, OPELOUSAS.--There is no name connected with the history
of Opelousas that is more honored than that of Henry L. Garland.  He was born
in St. Landry parish, September 27, 1836.  He received a liberal education in
Franklin College and the University of Virginia,  He studied law in the office
of Caleb L. Swayze, subsequently attending law lectures in the city of New
Orleans.  In 1848 he began practising [sic] law in Opelousas, and has always
made his home in this place.  He still owns and resides in the house in which
he was born.

At the beginning of hostilities in the late civil war, Mr. Garland organized a
company from St. Landry parish for the Confederate States service, of which he
was made captain.  Their field of operation was chiefly in Tennessee.  In the
first day's battle of Shiloh, two-thirds of his men were killed or wounded.
At the close of the war Mr. Garland returned home and resumed his practice, in
which he has since been actively engaged.  He has been a member of the
Legislature from his parish and has held other positions of trust.  
In his practice he has never prosecuted a criminal.  He was married in St.
Landry parish to Miss Julia L. Bullard, and to them have been born five
children,  Marie,  Charles F.,  Virginia,  Henry L., Jr., and  Robert Lee
Garland.  Henry L., Jr.  is an attorney in New Orleans;  Robert Lee Garland is
a graduate of the law department of Tulane University, New Orleans, and is
connected with his father in 1aw's practice and general business at this
place.  He is but a young man and has a promising future.  He is a graduate of
the Manhattan College, New York City, having taken a literary course there.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 46.
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.