Louis La Garde
| Louis Anatole La Garde | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 15, 1849 Thibodaux, Louisiana |
| Died | March 7, 1920 (aged 70) |
| Allegiance | United States |
| Service/branch | Medical Corps |
Louis Anatole La Garde (April 15, 1849 - March 7, 1920), Colonel, Medical Corps U. S. Army, was born in Thibodaux, Louisiana and was the son of Justin de La Garde and Aurelia Daspit, both members of colonial French families.
He attended the Louisiana Military Academy at Alexandria (1866–68) and matriculated at Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York in 1870 and after two years of continuous attendance was graduated in 1872. After an internship of six months in the hospital for the paralytic and epileptic at Blackwell's Island he won an appointment as junior assistant surgeon in Roosevelt Hospital and was shortly promoted to assistant and then to house surgeon.
He left Roosevelt Hospital to accept an appointment as acting assistant surgeon in the Army, effective March 30, 1874, and joined the service at Fort Wallace, Kansas. He spent four years in this status, then at Fort Elliott, Texas, and Camp Robinson, Nebraska. During the winter of 1876-77 he was in the field with General R. S. McKenzie’s cavalry command in the Powder River Expedition against hostile Sioux, and won the recommendation of General McKenzie for gallantry in the action against Chief Dull Knife’s band in the Big Horn Mountains on November 25, 1876.
On June 6, 1878, he was appointed a first lieutenant in the medical corps from Kentucky where he had established a residence, and spent the next year at Fort Hamilton and Fort Columbus in New York harbor, during which time he studied diseases of the eye and microscopy . He next spent five years in the Indian Territory, first in camp on the North Fork of the Canadian River and then at Fort Reno. While at the latter post he took leave in 1881 and was married in Franklin, Kentucky, to Frances Neely, of a pioneer family, which for generations had furnished physicians to their community. On June 6, 1883, he was promoted to captain. He served at Fort Ellis, Mont. (1884–86), in the Yellowstone National Park (1886–87), and at Fort Assinniboine to April 1891, at which time he had completed fifteen years of continuous frontier duty.
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