Civil War Service
In 1861, Hardy joined Company H of the 16th Mississippi Infantry, became Captain and, at one time, served under General Stonewall Jackson. A gastric ulcer necessitated his discharge, and he returned to Raleigh, Mississippi in 1865.
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