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Federal (USV)

Private

Michael Hayes

(c. 1843 - ?)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 17 year old farm worker and lived with Dr. Asa L Spalding and family at Thompsonville, Enfield, Hartford County, CT. He enlisted on 8 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 27 September.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the right arm and captured in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was paroled on 6 October 1862 and returned to his company. He mustered out at the end of his term of enlistment on 6 October 1864.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1843 in IRELAND

Notes

1 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, p. 335 [AotW citation 30689]

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