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.
