Norman McHardy

(c. 1830 - 1863)
Home State: Wisconsin
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 2nd Wisconsin Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
Of Scottish descent from La Crosse, he enlisted in Company B, 2nd Wisconsin Infantry on 18 April 1861 as Corporal.

In the Antietam Campaign:
He was mortally wounded in the right shoulder and arm in action on 17 September 1862.

The remainder of the War:
He was first in a field hospital in Keedysville, MD then at Frederick, MD , where he died of his Antietam wounds on 30 March 1863.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Basic information from State of Wisconsin1. Details from Glimpses of the Nation's Struggle (1898), fourth series of papers read in 1892-97 before the Minnesota Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, pg. 551.

Birth State: SCOTLAND
Death Date: 03/30/1863 Death Place: Frederick, MD Burial Place: Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 State of Wisconsin, Adjutant General's Office, and Chandler P. Chapman, Adj. Gen., Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printers, 1886, Vol. 1, pp. 350 - 352 [AotW citation 10130]

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