Garland Brown Hanes enlisted as a captain on May 29, 1861 in Co. F of the 20th VA Infantry, and later was transferred to Co. A of the 57th VA Infantry. Hanes was promoted to major on April 15, 1862. In September of 1862, a letter to the Secretary of the Treasury asking for employment is marked "employed," so he presumably left his regiment prior to that (there are indications he was hospitalized for a time in 1862) and then served in the confederate bureaucracy.
Garland Hanes had been a teacher and principal at Buckingham Institute in Buckingham County, VA, prior to his military service. By 1870, he was practicing law in Buckingham County.
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