Hardy W. Lewis

In 1860 he was a 19 year old living with his widowed mother and siblings on the family farm in Copiah County, MS. He enlisted on 25 April 1861 at Crystal Springs, MS and mustered as a Private in Company C, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 29 May 1861 in Corinth, MS.

He was wounded in the hand in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

He was back with his Company by October 1862. He was captured at Germanna Bridge near Fredericksburg, VA on 29 April 1863, briefly in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC, and paroled there on 10 May. He was wounded again, by a gunshot to his right arm in May 1864, and furloughed from a Richmond, VA hospital on 17 July for 30 days. There is no later military record.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound from a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave.

His bother Forbes was also wounded at Sharpsburg.

07/07/1841; Copiah County, MS

10/07/1864; Petersburg, VA; burial in Ettrick Cemetery, Chesterfield, VA