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(1840 - 1900)
Home State: Massachusetts
Education: Harvard College (AM), Class of 1860
Branch of Service: Artillery
Before Antietam
Son of a successful Boston physician, he was appointed 2nd Lieutenant, Battery F, 3rd United States Artillery on 5 August 1861. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 5 February 1862 (to date from 5 August 1861) and transferred to Battery L. He was later brevetted Captain for his actions at Gaines Mill, VA in June 1862, where he was wounded. He returned to his Battery on 1 August.
On the Campaign
He was with the combined Batteries L and M of the 3rd US Artillery on the Maryland Campaign of 1862.
The rest of the War
He commanded the combined batteries at Fredericksburg, VA in December 1862. He was at Vicksburg and Jackson, MS and at Knoxville in 1863. He was on recruiting duty then Assistant Adjutant General of the Artillery Division, Department of Washington from December 1864 to September 1865. He was honored again, by brevet to Major, on 13 March 1865 for his war service.
After the War
He was again recruiting, at Boston (1866-1867), at Governor's Island, NY in the Fall of 1867, and was back with the battery at Eastport, ME in the Spring of 1868. He resigned his commission on 31 October 1868.
Later that year he was a clerk to the Superintendent of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, by 1873 the freight agent of the Missouri River, Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad, then the Boston and Albany Railroad. In 1880 he was the general traffic manager of the New York Central Railroad (NYCRR) and lived in his mother-in-law's home in Nahant, MA. By 1895 he was 2nd Vice President of the NYCRR & Hudson River Railroad and lived in Manhattan.
Horace J. Hayden, Second Vice President of the New York Central Railroad, was instantly killed last evening at his residence, 337 West Seventy-sixth Street, by falling from a third-story window.
References & notes
His service from Heitman1 Henry,2 and Brown.3 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1880 and 1900, and his obituary in the New York Times of 8 December 1900, source of the quote above. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Harriet Putnam (1845-1927) in Boston in October 1872 and they had 3 children.
More on the Web
See more about the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, including a lovely route map, in their Annual Report of 1895 [pdf].
Birth
09/11/1840; Boston, MA
Death
12/07/1900; Manhattan, NY; burial in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA
1 Heitman, Francis Bernard, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army 1789-1903, 2 volumes, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1903, Vol. 1, pg. 514 [AotW citation 28872]
2 Henry, Guy Vernor, Military Record of Civilian Appointments in the United States Army, 2 Volumes, New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1873, Vol. 1, pg. 208 [AotW citation 28873]
3 Brown, Francis H., Roll of Students of Harvard University who Served in the Army or Navy of the United States During the War of the Rebellion, Cambridge: Harvard University, 1866, pg. 140 [AotW citation 28874]