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Robert Archelaus Hardaway was born on 2 February 1829, in Morgan County, Ga., to Robert Stanfield and Martha Bibb Jarratt Hardaway. In 1833, the family moved to Columbus, Ga., and then moved again five years later to Summerville, Russell Co., Ala. After attending local schools, he briefly attended the College of Saint Joseph's at Spring Hill, Mobile, Ala., before entering Emory College at Oxford, Ga., in January 1845. After graduation in 1847, he was an officer in Seibel's Battalion of Alabama Volunteers. The battalion was stationed in Mexico from January through July 1848 and saw no actual fighting.

For seven years, 1850 to 1857, he worked for the Mobile & Girard Railroad, rising to the position of chief engineer and superintendent before resigning in order to run his plantation in Macon Co. (now Bullock Co.), Ala. In June 1857 he married Rebecca Hurt, and they had three children, Robert Early Hardaway (b.26 April 1858), George Stanfield Hardaway (1859-1860), and Benjamin Hurt Hardaway (b.19 February 1866).

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