Image of Lemuel Hazzard and six other Union soldiers having a meal. The soldiers are identified by numbers corresponding to names on the back of the tintype. The men are, from left to right: 1) J. H. Weaver; 2) N. B. McConnel; 3) L. H. Hazard; 4) Chap. Davis; 5)Geo. Deardorff; 6) Jo. Baker; and 7) Jim Williams. Lemuel H. Hazzard, Sergeant, 1st Lieutenant, and then Captain of Co. I of the 12th Regiment of Indiana Infantry. The 12th was organized at Indianapolis in August of 1862, and immediately left the state for Kentucky. The men took part in the disastrous battle of Richmond, Ky., when the green troops were routed by a much more experienced Confederate force under the command of Edmund Kirby Smith; the entire regiment was captured. Hazzard, along with his fellow soldiers, was paroled by the Confederate authorities in September of 1862. The regiment was then returned to Indianapolis for reorganization. In November the men left for Memphis, Tennessee. In November and December, 1862, they took part in Grant’s Central Mississippi campaign, and then wintered in Tennessee, guarding railroads until June 1863 when the regiment was ordered to Vicksburg, Miss. The 12th fought at Vicksburg, Jackson, and then Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign, Atlanta Campaign, operations in North Georgia and North Alabama, March to the Sea, siege of Savannah, and the campaign of the Carolinas. After the war Hazzard moved to Missouri, worked as a carpenter, ran a furniture business, and in 1883-1884 was a clerk in Railway Postal Service in Kansas City, Mo. In 1884 he resigned his position, owing to a partial paralysis caused by a railroad accident. He died in March 1904 in Kansas City, Missouri. The family name was sometimes spelled "Hazard." Photographer unidentified.
United States. Army. Indiana Infantry Regiment, 12th (1861-1865) United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs Tintype (prints) (aat)
Source
Papers of Lemuel H. Hazzard, 1861-1919 (bulk 1861-1873) United States Civil War, Huntington Digital Library
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