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Federal (USV)

Private

Henry Hayes

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 62nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21, he enlisted on 1 August 1861 at New York City and mustered as Private, Company C, 62nd New York Infantry on 15 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in Maryland but he died of disease at a hospital in Hagerstown (or Clear Spring), MD on 11 December 1862.

References & notes

Basic information from the State of New York,1 which has his death place as Clear Spring, MD. Death details from an article in the Hagerstown Herald of Freedom & Torch Light of 17 December 1862.

Birth

c. 1840

Death

12/11/1862; Hagerstown, MD

Notes

1   State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1900, Ser. No. 26, pg. 1183  [AotW citation 17681]

1   State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1903, Ser. No. 36, pg. 26  [AotW citation 17682]