The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-03-28

The muffied drums sad roll
Has beat the soldiers last tattoo.
No more on life's parade shall meet
The brave and daring few.
On fame's eternal camping ground
His silent tent is spread
And glory guards with solemn round
The bivouac of the dead.
The deceased was born in Geneva, N. T., in
1920, and was in his 65th year and had been a
resident of Aurora for over 80 years. He en-
tered the army at the breaking out of the Re.
bellion and was surgeon in chief of the caval.
~ corps G. A. r. He served as alderman and
later was postmaster of Aurora for four years.
The Aurora Ne,ps says of him:
CDR. Hard was man Of rare individuality.
His was life filled with severe professional
toll. Whether in the quietest homes Of sick
ness and suffering, or on the blood.stained
field of battle, enveloped in smoke and be-
tween walls Of flame, he was true in heart and
prompt and intelligent to act for the relief Of
those in need of his professional attic ntion
At the battle of Gettysburg he was given
charge of the hospitals and worked only as
capable surgeon, a true patriot and a man Of
soul could work He is remembered CRATE
fully by many men who were, on those event
full July days in 1868, torn with rebel shot and
she'll"
He wrote a "History of the Eighth Cavalry
Regiment of Illinois Volunteers During the
Great Rebellion" Of which that paper says:
"Certainly no man was better calculated to
write history of the regiment than DR.. Hard
He followed those intrepid fighters from st.
Charles to Cockneyville, and was with them
on the Rappahannock, at Cold Harbor, NAL
vern Hill, at bloody Manassas and on the field
of Antetam. He looked not backward at any
time and Charlottesville, Culpepper, Fred
ericksburg and Gettysburg came, with their
sicges of blood and desolation to find him
alive to duty.
The part DR.. Hard took in caring for the
wounded at the battle of Gettysburg, and his
merciful treatment of sufferers, is frequently
alluded to by the lecturer who explains to Wis
itors at the great Chicago panorama the his
tory connected with that memorable engage.
ment."
At the funeral there were Is of the regular
physicians of Aurora. The city schools were
closed and all the public officers participated
in the obsequies. He is gone from the great
battlefield of life to the camp eternal, leaving
behind him the name and fame of many good
deeds ere death finally mustered out the sol.
dier-surgeon to join that invisible army of the
Lord by the gates of the New Jerusalem.
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During the session CT the supreme court
here, the following named persons were ad.
mtted to the Illinois bar on foreign licenses:
Nathan W. Campbell, James NJ Cleland,
Joseph Fl Defrees, Jr., George W. Easley,
Frederick L Engel, Thomas F. Ferns, Ira
C. Gibbons, and John II. Sutherland
The following were admitted on certificate
from the appellate court: John J. Arney,
Charles H. Austin, James Edward Barren,
Horace B. Chase, Fred. S. Comstock, George
R, Daley, Joseph P. David, Hubbard Dunly,
Lynden Evans, Alonzo Hertig, Thomas J.
Holmes, Thomas L. Hartigan, Charles s.
Harris, Samuel r. Juevet, Charles Longbridge,
Robert II. Lovett, Herbert G. Lang, Edward
McCulloch, Henry V. Miller, Miss Alice C.
Mute, Oliver E. Payne, Frederick Peak, John
W. Paddock, Charles P. Sawyer, John Wha-
len, and Norman p. Willard.