T.J. Hardy
"Tom"
(1839 - 1917)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Age 21, he enlisted on 19 April 1861 in Raleigh, Smith County, MS and mustered as 5th Sergeant of Company H, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 1 June 1861 in Corinth. He was promoted to First Sergeant on 17 June and was elected 3rd Lieutenant on 4 October 1861. He was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant on 28 April 1862 and slightly wounded by a cannonball which killed the man next to him, at 2nd Bull Run in August.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was wounded yet again, at Fredericksburg, VA on 13 December 1862 and promoted to First Lieutenant on 18 January 1863. He was with his Company to at least February 1865, when he was granted a furlough of indulgence. There is no later military record.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound in a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph contributed to the FamiySearch database by Gina Ellerbe.
His older brother William Harris Hardy (1837-1917) was organizer and first Captain of the Defenders of Smith County, later Company H of the 16th Mississippi. He was ill after Sharpsburg and resigned his commission in October 1862.
Birth
08/17/1839; Lowndes County, AL
Death
12/14/1917; Ellisville, MS
1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 29679]