- Martin Davis Hardin
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Martin Davis Hardin Born June 26, 1837
Jacksonville, IllinoisDied December 12, 1923 (aged 86)Allegiance United States of America
UnionService/branch United States Army
Union ArmyRank Brigadier General Battles/wars American Civil War Martin Davis Hardin (June 26, 1837 – December 12, 1923) was a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Martin D. Hardin was born in Jacksonville, Illinois. He was a family friend and protege of Abraham Lincoln (it was at the Hardin family home that Lincoln first met his wife, Mary Todd). Hardin graduated from West Point in the Class of 1859, and was an aide to Robert E. Lee in the hanging of John Brown soon after. He lost an arm in the Civil War. After the war he became a lawyer in Chicago, and had a winter home in St. Augustine, Florida. His second wife, Amelia McLaughlin (1863–1939) was the sister-in-law of Irene Castle, the famous dancer. Hardin spent his last years in the famous "Union Generals' House" at 20 Valencia Street in St. Augustine, Florida (saved from a proposed demolition by Flagler College in the 1980s thru the concerted action of local history lovers). Hardin was one of the last surviving Civil War generals of either side at the time of his death in 1923. He is buried, with his wife, at the U.S. National Cemetery in St. Augustine. His widow honored him by building a chapel (complete with a statue of St. Martin) on the grounds of the Mission of Nombre de Dios in St. Augustine.
See also
References
- Hardin biography
- David Nolan, The Houses of St. Augustine, Pineapple Press, 1995.
Categories:- Union Army generals
- People from Illinois
- 1837 births
- 1923 deaths
- American Civil War stubs
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