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HAYES, Joseph, soldier, born in South Berwick, Maine, 14 September, 1835. He was graduated at, Harvard in 1855, appointed major of the 18th Massachusetts regiment, 26 July, 1861, lieutenant-colonel, 25 August, 1862, colonel, 30 November, 1862, and brigadier-general of volunteers, 12 May, 1864. He was taken prisoner by the Confederates, and was for several months confined in Libby prison, Richmond, Virginia He was brevetted major-general of volunteers, 13 March, 1865, and mustered out of service on 24 August In January, 1865, he was appointed United States commissioner of supplies in the seceded states. In 1877 he introduced the American system of hydraulic mining into the United States of Colombia.
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