New York Central & Hudson River Railroad $1000 Gold Bond, Signed Horace Hayden

  
11 Sep 1840 - d. 7 Dec 1900 who served as an Officer in the United States Light Field Artillery During the Civil War, Graduate of Harvard University Class of 1860 and Post-War Industrialist and Railroad Entrepreneur. 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 was with the combined Batteries L and M of the 3rd US Artillery on the Maryland Campaign of 1862. 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.

He resigned his commission on 31 October 1868. 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.

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. As Photographed - with some wear and coupons detached as seen. A Super Candidate for any Civil War Collection, 12th NHV Archive or Display.

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