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(1836 - 1916)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A dry good store clerk in Hartford, he enrolled as the Captain of Company G, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 11 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He led his Company and was wounded in his left arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for disability on 17 January 1863.
After the War
He moved to Unionville, CT in 1870 and had a coal, feed, and general trucking business there to about 1885. He then retired and lived there for the rest of his life. He funded and saw to the creation of the Soldiers Monument in Unionville, and died not long after it was dedicated in July 1916.
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In 1875 Hayden built a tenement building in Unionville, CT, which still stands.
Birth
05/16/1836; West Hartford, CT
Death
09/08/1916; Unionville, CT; burial in Greenwood Cemetery, Avon, CT
1 Ingersoll, Colin Macrae, Adjutant-General, Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations in the Service of the United States, 1861-1865, Hartford: Brown & Gross, 1869, pp. 651 - 663 [AotW citation 5549]
2 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, pg. 631 [AotW citation 27182]