Hardy Herschel Todd

In 1860 he was a 21 year old farmer on his parents' small place at Gibson in Glascock County, GA. He enlisted there on 4 March 1862 First Sergeant of Company A, 48th Georgia Infantry.

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was elected Junior 2nd Lieutenant on 24 September, Senior 2nd Lieutenant on 30 January 1863, and promoted to First Lieutenant on 7 January 1864. He was wounded again, by a gunshot at Petersburg, VA on 7 February 1865 and captured in a hospital there on 3 April. A paroled prisoner, he took an amnesty oath at Richmond, VA on 26 October and was discharged from the hospital at Petersburg on 30 October 1865.

By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer in Gibson and Mitchell, Glascock County, GA. He had retired there by 1910 and was living with his son James and family in 1920.

His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Nancy Nunn (1840-1906) in January 1870 and they had a son James Nimrod Todd (1876-1948).

08/15/1838; Warren County, GA

01/28/1922; Mitchell, GA; burial in Griffin Chapel Cemetery, Glascock County, GA