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C.H. Hayden

C.H. Hayden

Federal (USV)

Private

Charles Henry Hayden

(c. 1838 - 1864)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 97th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted on 1 November 1861 in Company K, 97th NY Infantry at age 23.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

Later promoted to Corporal and died on May 12, 1864 of wounds received in action in The Wilderness, VA on May 6, 1864.

References & notes

Basic information from State of New York1. Thanks to Devan Sommerville for scrubbing through the AG's report, and extracting and transcribing the roster data for AotW. The picture here from a photograph in the collection of the New York Military Museum available online through the New York Heritage portal.

Birth

c. 1838

Death

05/12/1864

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, Issue 32 (for 1902)  [AotW citation 7054]