Civil War Vet James A. Hard Nears 105th Birthday
Bainbridge News & Republican, April 18, 1946
James A. Hard, a veteran of the Civil War, will observe his 105th birthday, July 14. Mr. Hard was honored in Rochester on his 100th birthday being the only surviving Civil War veteran of that city. He spent his boyhood and early manhood in Windsor [Broome Co., NY].
At his celebration five years ago, he made this remark about Windsor: "A lovely village of which I have many fond recollections, and a splendid country, that in which to get a good start for a long life."
At 21 he enlisted in Company E. of the 37th New York Volunteer Infantry in response to President Lincoln's call for volunteers when the southern states succeeded and set up the Confederate States of America. In regard to this he said: "We were going to have a lot of fun and we did, and some pretty tough times, too, at Bull Run, July 21, 1861 and at Chancellorsville, South Mountain and Antietam, the bloodiest of them all."
Veteran Hard's happiest memory is meeting Abraham Lincoln for whom he voted in 1864.--Standard
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