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.
