Fair Oaks, Va., vicinity. Brigade officers of the Horse Artillery commanded by Lt. Col. William Hays

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Fair Oaks, Va., vicinity. Brigade officers of the Horse Artillery commanded by Lt. Col. William Hays

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Gibson, James F., 1828-, photographer

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1862

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A full-body group portrait glass plate negative of Union Lt. Edmund Pendleton, PLt. Alex C. M. Pennington, Capt. Henry Benson, Capt, H. M. Gibson, Lt. James E. Wilson, Capt. John C. Tidball, Lt. William N. Dennison. Seated, left to right: Capt. Horatio Gibson, Lt. Peter C. Hains, Lt. Col. William Hays, Capt. James M. Robertson, Lt. J. W. Barlow. Seated on the ground, left to right: Lt. Robert H. Chapin, Lt. Robert Clarke, A.C. Vincent

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Full-body group portrait glass plate negative of soldiers in uniform

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Glass plate negative

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Library of Congress

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Lieutenant Colonel William Hays
(1819 - 1875)
Home State: Tennessee
Education: US Military Academy, West Point, NY, Class of 1840;Class Rank: 18th
Command Billet: Corps Chief of Artillery
Branch of Service: Artillery
Unit: VCorps Artillery Reserve
On the Campaign-He commanded the V Corps Reserve Artillery, stationed on the heights east of the Antietam Creek on the 17th, providing long range fire, mainly against Confederate infantry positions between the East and West Woods.

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