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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Hardy J. Walden

(1837 - 1907)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 49th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 23 year old farmer wsith a small place near Dublin in Laurens County, GA. He enlisted in Augusta, GA on 16 May 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 49th Georgia Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 19 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was formally exchanged on 10 November and was back on duty about March 1863. He was with his company to at least February 1865, the latest record in his military file.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer in Laurens County, GA.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Rebecca Miller (1828-1883) in December 1857 and they had 3 or 4 children.

Birth

05/07/1837; Laurens County, GA

Death

04/16/1907; Laurens County, GA; burial in White Springs Baptist Church Cemetery, Laurens County, GA

Notes

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 34735]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #129 [AotW citation 34736]

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