Barnard attended the
Richmond County public schools and graduated from the
Academy of Richmond County (Augusta, Georgia) in 1939. He attended
Augusta College from 1939 to 1940, then graduated in 1943 with a
Bachelor of Arts from
Mercer University in
Macon, where he became a member of the
Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He served in the
United States Army during
World War II from 1943 to 1945 and became a
technician two. He served in the 57th Finance Disbursing Unit and was stationed at
Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Indiana as well as in the
European theatre of World War II in England, France and Belgium. He explained that the monument was to guide future generations and that it should make Americans try to ecologically preserve the environment. He had two daughters, one son, and 7 grandchildren. ==Legacy==