CARLI Digital Collections Featured Image: Noah Hart Captain Commission, 1863-04-06

The Noah Hart Papers consist mainly of correspondence during the Civil War from Captain Noah Hart (1813-1891) to his wife Emily Julia Peck Hart (1824-1884). Hart enlisted in the 10th Michigan Infantry in 1862 and remained in the service until 1865, moving through Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia.

The letters provide information on the everyday life of the regiment including health and nutrition, supplies, sleeping conditions, weather, pay, and matters back home in Michigan. Of particular note are the letters of July and August 1864 regarding General Sherman's siege of Atlanta. The papers also contain Hart's military records, a portion of his diary, correspondence from Noah and Emily to their son Clarence in the 1880s, a Hart family genealogy beginning in 1605, clippings and publications about Hart family members, and a small selection of photographs.

The document pictured here certifies the promotion of Noah Hart to Captain, Company F, 10th Michigan Infantry, while stationed at Nashville, Tennessee. The document is signed on the front by Governor Austin Blair, Secretary of State J.B. Porter and Adjutant General John Robertson, signed on the back by Hart and Colonel Charles Lum, and affixed with the state seal of Michigan. Transcriptions of the text are recorded in the page descriptions for this document.

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