biography
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Hardee, William Joseph
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| male
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| lived:
| (1815–73)
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| biography:
| US soldier, born in Savannah, Georgia, USA. He trained at West Point (1838), served on the frontier and in the Mexican War, and was appointed commandant of cadets at West Point (1856–61). He also wrote the standard pre-war manual of infantry tactics. Having joined the Confederate army when his native state seceded, he commanded a corps at Perryville, KY (1862), Stone's River, TN (1862), and Chattanooga (1863). He ordered the evacuations of Savannah and Charleston, SC as Sherman approached, and surrendered to Sherman in April 1865. |
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