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06 Dec 2015 09:13:36pm | re: 3c washington help please
I agree Philb! I bought several of these early covers. Several are from the Civil War years. One is addressed to a patient in ward 28 of the Carver General Hospital in Washington, DC. Carver General was a hospital set up to handle wounded from Civil War battles.
On the back of the cover written very lightly in pencil is the return address:
Sergt John Hardy
2nd Mich. Inft.
Washington, DC
A little about John Hardy from:
http://seekingmichigan.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p4006coll3/id/833/rec/1
Portrait of Captain John C. Hardy, standing with saber, 1861-1865. (Veteran), Detroit. Enlisted in Company D, Second Infantry, April 20, 1861, at Adrian, for 3 years, age 19. Mustered May 25, 1861. Corporal July 25, 1861. Re-enlisted Feb. 25, 1861, at Detroit, Mich. Mustered Feb. 26, 1864. On duty with company K, Seventeenth Infantry, from Jan. 30, 1864 to April 9, 1864. Wounded in action at Wilderness, Va., May 6, 1864 (while the year date on the cover is not readable the day and month is June 20). First Sergeant. Discharged for promotion Oct. 16, 1864. Commissioned First Lieutenant, company B, Sept. 24, 1864. Mustered Oct. 17, 1864. Commissioned Captain, company D, April 25, 1865. Mustered April 27, 1865. Participated in the following engagements: Blackburn's Ford, Va., Bull Run, Va., Bailey's Cross Roads, Munson's Hill, Va., Siege of Yorktown, Va., Williamsburg, Va., Fair Oaks, Va., near Richmond, Va. June 18, 1862, White Oak Swamp, Va., Malvern Hill, Va., Second Bull Run, Va., Chantilly, Va., Fredericksburg, Va., Siege of Vicksburg, Miss., Siege of Jackson, Miss., Jackson, Miss., Blue Spring, Tenn., London, Tenn., Lenoir Station, Tenn., Campbell's Station, Tenn., Siege of Knoxville, Tenn., Charge on enemy's works in front of Knoxville, Tenn., Fort Saunders, Tenn., Thurley's Ford, Tenn., Strawberry Plains, Tenn., near Knoxville, Tenn., Jan. 22, 1864, Wilderness, Va., May 6, 1864 (where he was severely wounded), Night assault on Fort Steadman, Va., Capture of Petersburg, Va., Brevetted Captain, U.S. Volunteers, March 25, 1865, for conspicuous gallantry in attack on Fort Steadman. Mustered out at Delaney House, D.C., July 28, 1865 (Descriptive Roll Second Michigan Volunteers).
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