Timothy Hayes

A 24 year old laborer, he enlisted in New York as Private, Company A, 2nd United States Infantry on 3 January 1855 and was a Private at Ft. Laramie, Nebraska Territory at the end of his term in January 1860. He reenlisted on 1 October 1859 in New York City and was First Sergeant of his Company by 1862.

He was noted by Lieutenant Poland among "[t]hose who most distinguished themselves for excellent behavior" in action near the Middle Bridge at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was discharged at the end of his enlistment at Sandusky, OH on 30 July 1864.

Service information from the Register.1 The Lieutenant Poland quote above is from his after-action Report.

c. 1831; County Limerick, Ireland