14 Nov 1864 Athens, AL 8 Page Soldier's Letter

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Job Barnard (1844-1923) Judge Barnard was born on Maple Arbor Farm, Porter County. Indiana on 8 June 1844 and was the ninth child of William and Sally Barnard. He grew to young manhood on his father's farm. He early developed a love for knowledge and was an incessant reader of the works of the best authors. He received his early education in the public schools of his county and later attended the Valparaiso Male and Female College for two years. With the outbreak of the civil war young Barnard was an early volunteer for service in the Union army. He enlisted and was assigned to Company K of the 73rd Indiana Volunteer Infantry, serving with that command all through the conflict. He was mustered out with the rank of sergeant. The last year of the war he was in command of his company as all the commisioned officers of his command had been taken prisoner. His regiment was in the Army of the Cumberland and his service was in Tennessee and Kentucky. While serving in the army he studied shorthand which had a determining influence on his future life. At the close of the war he entered he entered the University of Michigan for the study of law and graduated from that school in the class of 1867. Forty years later the university conferred upon him the honorary degree LL.D. On September 25, 1867, he was married to Miss Florence A. Putnam and then located in Crown Point, Indiana w he practiced law until June 1873, being a partner of his brother Milton Barnard and Elisha Field. He served as town clerk, marshal, assessor and city treasurer. His knowledge of shorthand and experience as a court reporter brought him to Washington as one of the assistant clerks in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia serving under the late Chief Justice David K. Cartter. In 1876 he formed a law partnership with James S.Edwards and practiced under the firm name of Edwards & Barnard until October 1, 1899 when President McKinley appointed him one of the associate justices of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia which position he held with marked ability and honor to himself and the bench and bar until June 8, 1914 when he retired at the age of seventy years. On February 28, 1923 he died at age 79 due to influenza. He was interned at Arlington national cemetery with military honors under auspices of the Department of the Potomac G.A.R. of which Judge Barnard was a member. The pallbearers were the six judges of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. In 1926 an elementary school was built in the District of Columbia and named after Job Barnard. It was completely modernized and reopened in 2003 and stands today as a testament to this great American. COVER: US 3 Cent tied with Nov 17, 1864 Nashville, Ten cancel. Athens, AlaNov. 14th, 1864My Dear Flora,We have not been driven from our Pose yet though we still have the same orders to leave whenever a large force threatens the place. The rain has ceased and the murky clouds have been scattered to the four winds of heaven while "Old Phoebus" again asserts his supremacy and rules the day. Autumn has now fairly asserted her power. The forest and chestnut groves which two weeks ago were clad in the many colored tints are now barren as winter and the November gales moan among their branches and pile the dead leaves about their trunks. Still, as I sit in my cozy "shanty", I hear the sounds of singing birds much the same as we hear them in Indiana in early Spring. The Blue Bird, Robin, Jay, and even occasionally the Mocking Bird greet us with their familiar and sweet warbling songs. T are days even in the mid Winter which sometimes come and make one wish to live in this climate. Whenever the sunshines and the winds are still we have very pleasant, I might say warm weather , but then the nights of winter are cold. I have just come in from drawing rations. Drew 3 days which is all the rations we have now having moved off everything bulky on the trains to Decatur. Perry is with the Baggage and all the Convalescents of the Regiment ... read more

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