William J. Hardee
Confederate Army general
Died when: 58 years 25 days (696 months)Star Sign: Libra
William Joseph Hardee (October 12, 1815 – November 6, 1873) was a career U.S.Army and Confederate States Army officer.For the U.S.
Army, he served in the Second Seminole War and in the Mexican–American War, where he was captured and exchanged.
In the American Civil War, he sided with the South and became a general.Hardee served in the Western Theater and quarreled sharply with two of his commanding officers, Braxton Bragg and John Bell Hood.
He served in the Atlanta Campaign of 1864 and the Carolinas Campaign of 1865, where he surrendered with General Joseph E.Johnston to William Tecumseh Sherman in April.
Hardee's writings about military tactics were widely used on both sides in the conflict.
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