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Civil War Soldiers - Hardie
| Hardie, James A., brigadier-general,
U.S. Army, was born in New York city, May 5, 1823, and was graduated
at the United States military academy in 1843. From 1844-46 he held an
assistant professorship at West Point, and was then on frontier duty
until 1861, serving in the Mexican war as commander of a New York
regiment with the rank of major, and being promoted captain in the
regular army in 1857. Being transferred to the 5th artillery in 1861,
with the rank of lieutenant-colonel and aide-de-camp, he served on
Gen. McClellan's staff during the Peninsular and Maryland campaigns,
and on the staff of Gen. Burnside in the battles around
Fredericksburg. He was made judge advocate-general on Gen. Hooker's
staff when that general succeeded Burnside, and for his services and
conduct was made brigadier-general of volunteers, Nov. 29, 1862, and
assistant adjutant-general with the rank of major in 1863. He was
assigned to special duty in the war department and was assistant
secretary to Secretary of War Stanton, and afterwards to acting
Secretaries Grant, Schofield and Rawlins. He was promoted
inspector-general with the rank of colonel in 1864, and on March 13,
1865, was given the brevet ranks of brigadier-general and
major-general U. S. A. in recognition of distinguished and faithful
services. In 1866 Gen. Hardie was senior member of the commission to
inspect ordnance and ordnance stores in forts and arsenals, and
commissioner to audit the military claims of Kansas, Montana, Dakota,
California and Oregon. He died in Washington, D. C., May 5, 1876.
Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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