Robert Archelaus Hardaway Recollections, . circa 1870-1897

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Robert Archelaus Hardaway Recollections, . circa 1870-1897

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MICROFILM ONLY. Recollections of Hardaway, born in Georgia and raised in Alabama; educated at St. Joseph's College, Ala., and Emory College, Ga.; with the United States Army in Mexico; superintendent of the Mobile and Girard Railroad; Alabama planter; Confederate artillery officer in Virginia; engineering professor at Auburn University, 1873-1881, and at the University of Alabama, 1882-1897; and engineer for the Central Railroad in Mexico, 1881- 1882. Also included are family histories and articles relating to various phases of Hardaway's life.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Hardaway, Robert Archelaus, b.1829.

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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...