- For other people with this name see Alexander Garden
Alexander Garden (1757 - 1829) was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on December 4, 1757, son of the naturalist Dr Alexander Garden and his wife, Elizabeth. He went to Westminster School in London and got his MA degree at the University of Glasgow in Scotland in 1779. Five years later, he married (Mary) Anna Gibbes.
After joining the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War, he was appointed an Ensign in "Light Horse Harry" Lee's legion in February 1782, was aide-de-camp to General Greene, and rose to the rank of major.
After the war, he was granted the right to his family's property, which had been confiscated after his father expressed disloyalty to the revolutionary cause. He died in Charleston on February 24, 1829.
He had five children: Alexander, Robert, Henry, Charles Ogilvie, and Eliza Gardenia.
Work published
- Anecdotes of the revolutionary war in America, with sketches of character of persons the most distinguished, in the Southern states, for civil and military services (Charleston 1822)
- Eulogy on Gen. Chs. Cotesworth Pinckney: president-general of the Society of the Cincinnati, delivered by appointment of the Society of the Cincinnati of South-Carolina, on Tuesday, the 1st of November, 1825, at St. Philip’s Church (Charleston 1825)
- Anecdotes of the American revolution, illustrative of the talents and virtues of the heroes and patriots, who acted the most conspicuous parts therein; second series (Charleston 1828)
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