Samuel Hardy, Class of 1846

Hardy was a teacher and joint principal of Union Academy in Nottoway County, VA, when he enlisted as sergeant in Company G of the 18th Virginia Infantry (the "Nottoway Grays") on April 22, 1861. He was promoted to lieutenant on November 29, 1861. Hardy lost his left arm to amputation as the result of a wound near his shoulder at the Battle of Gaines' Mill, VA, on June 27, 1862 and  resigned on  October 8, 1862.  Hardy died in 1881.