James Allen Hardie papers, 1844-1886 (bulk 1847-1876) | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Correspondence, memoranda, reports, orders, financial papers, and printed matter relating primarily to Hardie's military service in the West both during and following the Civil War. Subjects include the Mexican War, military affairs in California and Oregon (1847-1860), the Civil War especially the transfer of the command of the U.S. Army of the Potomac from Joseph Hooker to George Gordon Meade prior to the Battle of Gettysburg, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the execution of Mary E. Surratt in 1865, and Indian affairs in Montana and the Northwest. Correspondents include Orville Elias Babcock, Ambrose Everett Burnside, H.W. Halleck, Rufus Ingalls, Randolph Barnes Marcy, Philip Henry Sheridan, William T. Sherman, M.J. Spalding, E.D. Townsend, John Ellis Wool, and George Wright