Joshua Lemuel Hayes

In 1860 he was a 20 year old farmer living with his parents and 9 younger siblings at Newport in Vermillion County, IN. He enlisted and mustered in Terra Haute, IN on 7 June 1861 as a Corporal in Company A, 14th Indiana Infantry. He was promoted to Sergeant, date not found.

He was slightly wounded in the chest in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant on 18 October 1862, promoted to First Lieutenant on 14 February 1863, and to Captain on 1 March 1863. He was wounded again, at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863 and mustered out with his company on 24 June 1864.

He began receiving a US pension for disability in July 1868 and by 1870 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer at Rockville in Parke County, IN.

His service basics from the Adjutant General,1 also as Joshua L. Hays. Wound detail from the Indianapolis Sentinel of 27 September 1862, as J.C. Hayes. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Elizabeth Crooks (1847-1922) in August 1865. They had no natural children, but fostered two.

05/06/1840; Lafayette, IN

03/20/1911; Bridgeton, IN; burial in Rockville Cemetery, Rockville, IN