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Feb 28, 2026

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  A group of FIVE Hospital letters written by John O. Hardy who mustered into "D" Co. Massachusetts 2nd Cavalry on 1/4/1864, and was wounded 10/8/1864 Tom's Brook, VA. He was Mustered Out on 7/20/1865 at Fairfax Court House, VA. The letters show occasional fold splits.(1) Datelined; Tilton Hospital Wilmington Del., Oct 15th, 1864 to his father, 4pp, In part, “... let you know how I get along. I have been to the regt and got wounded. I was not there only two days before I got hit. I got hit in the left hand it went through it. I guess that I shall have a good hand again , it is pretty painful but I can stand it ... it was Sunday that I got hit at Fishers hill ...”(2) Datelined; Tilton Hospital Wilmington Del., Oct 22th, 1864 to his brother, 4pp, In part, “... you heard of the great victory General Sheridan has won in the Shenendoah Valley, my regt. was there .. the papers gave ... more the brave charge that it was made ...”(3) Datelined; Tilton Hospital Wilmington Del., Oct 28th, 1864 to his brother, 4pp, In part, “My hand is doing first rate .... the report is that we shall be sent home ... able to stand the ride ... you did not say whether they gave you a wooden leg or whether your stump healed up ...” (4) Datelined; Tilton Hospital Wilmington Del., Nov. 9th(?)the, 1864 to his brother, 4pp, In part, “I got a letter from home stating that you are in the hospital in Annapolis ... I am glad that it did not kill you as we thought it had when we first heard that you were missing ...”(5) Datelined; Satterlee U.S. General Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa. Nov. 28th., to his Father & Mother, 4pp., In part, “To write you a letter to let you know I have moved ... I stopped in Wilmington long enough to get a tall Thanksgiving dinner ... My hand is better but still pretty stiff ... I wonder if they put me in the Invalid care, they will if my hand dont get better, I had rather go up to the front ...”There also three associated documents including; Discharge document; Pension document , allowed $3 per month; Another later pension document, $24 per month 1912, and $30 per month 1919.Tilton Hospital was a 380-bed facility and treated thousands of injured soldiers during the war. But once peace came, the facility discharged its last soldier. The doors closed in the late fall of 1865.

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