Title: Frank D. Harding Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1833-1902

Creator:

• Harding, Frank D., 1838-1902

Call Number: River Falls Mss AB

Quantity: 0.2 cubic feet (1 half-archives box)

Repository:

Housed at the University Archives and Area Research Center, Chalmer Davee Library, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, ; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-River Falls, Chalmer Davee Library / River Falls Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Papers of a Hudson, Wisconsin, man, including Civil War orders (1863-1866) about his service in Company G, 4th Wisconsin Cavalry; as Captain of Company H, 15th Regiment, Corps d'Afrique (1863-1866); and as officer of Company C, 99th Regiment United States Colored Troops. Includes muster rolls of the 99th, and correspondence describing his service in Louisiana and Mississippi, including information on the surrender of New Orleans. Also includes personal correspondence, 1833-1875, with relatives in Connecticut and Rhode Island, especially Eddy Harding, Brooklyn, Connecticut; business papers, 1848-1898, including warrantee deeds, an estate list (1849), and the will of Nathaniel Smith, Providence, Rhode Island (1860); and genealogical notes on the Jewell and Barnard families of Star Prairie, Wisconsin.

Language: English

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Frank D. Harding, of Lakeland, Minnesota, joined Company G of the Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry as a private on April 20, 1861. He was discharged on September 2, 1863. From 1863 to 1866 he served as captain in Company H of the Fifteenth Regiment of the Corps d'Afrique at New Orleans and Company C of the Ninety-ninth Regiment of United States Colored Infantry. Between 1862 and 1865, Captain Harding served as an engineer in Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Virginia.

In 1868, Mr. Harding moved to Hudson, Wisconsin, where for a number of years he ran a stationery and book store.

The Frank D. Harding Papers include personal correspondence, 1833-1875, much of it relating to his service in the Civil War; Civil War orders, 1863-1866; business papers, 1848-1898; and miscellaneous genealogical notes relating to the Jewell and Barnard families of Star Prairie, Wisconsin.

With the correspondence is a letter Frank D. Harding wrote to his father, Eddy Harding, on May 3, 1862, which describes events before the fall of New Orleans. There is a typewritten copy of a letter by Ammah Andrews which describes the St. Croix Valley region in 1848. Two letters from Colonel Uri B. Pearsall tell of the service of the Forty-eighth Wisconsin Infantry along the Santa Fe stage route in 1865 and of his settlement after the war as a mill operator near Fort Scott, Kansas.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Willis H. Miller, Hudson, Wisconsin, March 1958, October 1961, and October 1966, and E. A. Harding, Hudson, Wisconsin, January 1938.

Processing Information

Processed by Jack T. Ericson, March 14, 1967.

Box   1	Correspondence, 1833-1875 Note: Civil War letters are available online via The Civil War and Northwest Wisconsin website.
Box   1	Civil War orders, 1863-1866
Box   1	Business papers, 1848-1898
Box   1	Jewell and Barnard families, genealogical notes