Joseph Hayes

Joseph Hayes (September 14, 1835 – August 19, 1912) was a Harvard graduate, civil engineer, and a brigadier general of the Union Army who commanded two brigades of the 5th Army Corps during the American Civil War. Early life Joseph Hayes was born in South Berwick, Maine, September 14, 1835. He was the son of Judge William Allen Hayes, one of the leaders of the bar of the State of Maine. His ancestors upon both sides bore active and prominent part in both the Colonial and Revolutionary Wars. He prepared for college at the Phillips-Exeter Academy. After graduating from Harvard in 1855 and taking a course in civil engineering he went West and engaged in the preliminary surveys of the Iowa line of the Chicago & Rock Island Railway. Military career