Collection #

M 0781

 

 

JOHN HARDWICK
Papers, 1861–1902

Collection Information

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Contents

Cataloging Information

 

 

 

Processed by

Paul Brockman
4 September 2002
Updated 18 March 2004

Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269

www.indianahistory.org

 

COLLECTION INFORMATION

VOLUME OF
COLLECTION:

2 manuscript boxes

COLLECTION
DATES:

1861–1902

PROVENANCE:

Earl Robinson c/o Omnica, 15560-D Rockfield Blvd., Irvine, CA 92618, 30 April 2002

RESTRICTIONS:

None

COPYRIGHT:

 

REPRODUCTION
RIGHTS:

Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained from the Indiana Historical Society.

ALTERNATE
FORMATS:

 

RELATED
HOLDINGS:

 

ACCESSION
NUMBER:

2002.0444

NOTES:

 

BIOGRAPHiCAL SKETCH

John Hardwick of Martinsville, Morgan County, Indiana enlisted in Company “C” of the 33rd Indiana Regiment in September 1861.  He was wounded and captured at the Battle of Thompsons Station (Tennessee) in 1863 and spent several months in Libby Prison, Virginia.  Hardwick was promote to 1st lieutenant in February 1865, and was mustered out in July of the same year.  He returned to Martinsville and was the subscription manager for J. McBride’s History of the Thirty-third Indiana Veteran Volunteer Infantry During the Four Years of the Civil War (1900).

Sources:

Terrell, William Henry Harrison, Report of the Adjutant General of the state of Indiana.  Indianapolis : A.H. Connor [etc.] State Printer, 1865-69.  E506.2 I39 T4 1865.

Materials in collection.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The collection contains letters written by Hardwick to his family in Martinsville, Morgan County, while serving with the 33rd Indiana Regiment, 1861–65.  Most of the letters were written to his brother, Alexander, in Brooklyn, Morgan County, and his parents in Centerton, Morgan County.  Letters were written while with the 33rd Regiment in Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and the Carolinas and describe military operations and battles, camp life, and include comments and questions about people and conditions at home. 

Of particular note is his detailed description of the regiment’s actions with Sherman’s march through Georgia, May–December 1864.  Also contained in the papers are Hardwick’s handwritten description and a typescript of his capture at the Battle of Thompsons Station and his subsequent imprisonment at Libby Prison, Virginia, March–May 1863.  In it he details the horrors of a Confederate hospital at Columbia, Tennessee, and the indignities that existed at Libby Prison.

The remainder of Hardwick’s papers deal with his role as subscription manager for John McBride’s regimental history of the 33rd, published in 1900.  In addition to a signed copy of the history, there are letters from the surviving veterans, order forms, and subscription records, 1896–1902.

 

 

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

CONTAINER

Correspondence, Nov. 1861–1862

Box 1, Folder 1

Correspondence, Jan.–June 1863

Box 1, Folder 2

Correspondence, July–Nov. 1863

Box 1, Folder 3

Correspondence, Jan.–Sept. 1864

Box 1, Folder 4

Correspondence, Nov. 1864–May 1865

Box 1, Folder 5

Return of Stores, 1865

Box 1, Folder 6

Typescript of Letters, 1861–65

Box 1, Folder 7

Account of Capture and Imprisonment, 1863

Box 1, Folder 8

Typescript of Capture and Imprisonment Account, 1863

Box 1 Folder 9

Subscriptions for Regimental History, 1900

Box1 Folder 10

McBride,  History of the 33rd Indiana Veteran Volunteer Infantry, 1900

Box 1, Folder 11

Financial Records, Regimental History, 1900–01

Box 1, Folder 12

Orders for Regimental History, 1900 (1 of 2)

Box 2, Folder 1

Orders for Regimental History, 1900 (2 of 2)

Box 2, Folder 2

Correspondence Regarding Regimental History, 1896–1902 (1 of 5)

Box 2, Folder 3

Correspondence Regarding Regimental History, 1896–1902 (2 of 5)

Box 2, Folder 4

Correspondence Regarding Regimental History, 1896–1902 (3 of 5)

Box 2, Folder 5

Correspondence Regarding Regimental History, 1896–1902 (4 of 5)

Box 2, Folder 6

Correspondence Regarding Regimental History, 1896–1902 (5 of 5)

Box 2, Folder 7

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