William J. Hardee, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Confederate Army general
Date of Birth: 12-Oct-1815
Place of Birth: Camden County, Georgia, United States
Date of Death: 06-Nov-1873
Profession: military personnel
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About William J. Hardee
- William Joseph Hardee (October 12, 1815 – November 6, 1873) was a career U.S.
- Army and Confederate States Army officer.
- For the U.S.
- Army, he served in the Second Seminole War and in the Mexican–American War, where he was captured and exchanged.
- In the American Civil War, he sided with the South and became a general.
- Hardee served in the Western Theater and quarreled sharply with two of his commanding officers, Braxton Bragg and John Bell Hood.
- He served in the Atlanta Campaign of 1864 and the Carolinas Campaign of 1865, where he surrendered with General Joseph E.
- Johnston to William Tecumseh Sherman in April.
- Hardee's writings about military tactics were widely used on both sides in the conflict.
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