1. Commissioned major in the 23rd Ohio

    · Columbus, Ohio, United States

    Commissioned major in the 23rd Ohio
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    Hayes entered Union service as a major in the Twenty-Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The commission is documented on this date; Columbus is used as a representative location because the source separately records that he spent the first months of the war at Camp Chase outside Columbus.

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