Job Barnard Civil War Letters
This collection consists of two letters from Job Barnard, a First Sergeant in Company K, 73rd Indiana Infantry Regiment, to his fiancee Flora Putnam in Berrien Springs[s], Michigan. As a Union soldier, Barnard was stationed in Camden, Alabama, and writes about letters he has received, both from Flora and from friends and family, the goings-on of his regiment, reading poetry and articles in The Atlantic, and remaining friends with another woman. Also included is a scrap of cloth cut from a chair purportedly from the home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
Dates
- 1865 March 12-April 28
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Extent
0.1 Linear Feet (single folder)
Overview
This collection consists of two letters from Job Barnard, a First Sergeant in Company K, 73rd Indiana Infantry Regiment, to his fiancee Flora Putnam in Berrien Springs[s], Michigan. As a Union soldier, Barnard was stationed in Camden, Alabama, and writes about letters he has received, both from Flora and from friends and family, the goings-on of his regiment, reading poetry and articles in The Atlantic, and remaining friends with another woman. Also included is a scrap of cloth cut from a chair purportedly from the home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
Biographical / Historical
Job Barnard was born on a farm near Westville, Porter County, Indiana on June 8, 1844. Barnard was well-educated and followed the Quaker beliefs of his father, William, but when he turned eighteen he enlisted into Company K of the 73rd Indiana Volunteer Infantry, fighting for the Union. By the end of the Civil War—having attained the rank of sergeant, and with all other officers having been imprisoned—he commanded his company, which fought with the Army of the Cumberland in Tennessee and Kentucky. Barnard then attended the University of Michigan to study law, graduating in 1867, and forty years later the university gave him an honorary LL. D.
Barnard married Florence (Flora) Putnam on September 25, 1867, and moved to practice law with Elisha Field and his brother Milton in Crown Point, Indiana. There he also served as town clerk, marshal, and city treasurer. In 1873, he moved to Washington, D.C. as assistant clerk in the city's Supreme Court under Chief Justice David K. Carter. He partnered with James S. Edwards in 1876 to practice law. In 1899, President William McKinley appointed him associate justice for the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, from which position he retired in 1914.
Judge Job Barnard died on February 28, 1923, and was interred at Arlington National Cemetery.
Arrangement
Materials are in a single folder.
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository