The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-07-11
GEN. r.. B. HAYES.

the following brief sketch of the Re
publican candidate for Governor Of
this State;
i General r. 3. Hayes, Representative
in Congress Of the second District. and
Republican nominee for Governor of
Ohio, is native Of this State. He
was born in Delaware, Ohio, October
4, 1922. At twenty years of age he
graduated at Kenyon College. He
graduated at the Harvard Law School,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1874,
and in the same year was admitted to
the bar at Marietta, Ohio. He has
been for seventeen years a resident of
Cincinnati. The only Office he held
before entering the army was that of
City Solicitor, to which he was twice
elected.
Early in 1861 he took a decided
stand in the Republican County Con-
ventiOn for the coercion of rebels, and
proceeded to demonstrate his sincerity
by entering the army.
He was appointed Major of the
TWenty-third Ohio Volunteer Infant
ry, and served with the regiment
throughout the war. He was with
ROsecrans in West Virginia; with Nc
Clellan in the Antietam campaign !;
with Crook at ClOyd Mountain with
Hunter on the Lynchburg raid with
Sheridan in the battles of the Valley
of Virginia. There are no better
military records than his, if they are
to be rated by brave, faithful, stead
fast service, AT the battle of South
Mountain he was severely wounded.
The character of Generel Hayes ap-
pears in his persistent presence with
his regiment after he was wounded at
South Mountain, and his daring in
leading his regiment through the mo-
rass at Opequan. He was with Sheri-
dan in all his victories in the valley.
In Congress General Hayes has been a
!quiet working man. He has not made
speeches in Congress, but that he
speaks forcibly and fiuently, we know
very well in this corner of the State.
He will not disappoint his friends.
HIS GALLANTRY AND GOOD CONDUCT
IN THE WAR.
The following account of General
Hayes bravery at the battle Of South
Mountain is from "Ohio in the War -
cat South Mountain the regiment,
under Lieutenant Colonel Hayes,
| Colonel Scammon commanding divi-
siOn,) was the first infantry engaged,
being the advance of the column on
that day. It was ordered, at an early
hour, to advance by an unfrequented
rOad4eading up the mountain, and to
attack the enemy. Posted behind
stone walls, the enemy, in greatly su-
periOr force, poured a destructive fire
Of musketry, grape and canister into
our ranks at very short range, and in
a very short space of time Lieutenant
Colonel Hayes, Captain Skiles, and
Lieutenants Hood, Ritter and Smith
were each badly wounded, Colonel
Hayes, arm broken; Ritter, leg ampu-
tated, and over one hundred dead and
wounded lay upon the field out of the
three hundred and fifty who went into
action. The command now devolved
upon Major Comfy, and remained with
him from that time forward. The en-
emy suddenly opened fire from the
left, and the regiment changed front
on first company. Lieutenant Colonel
Hayes soon after again made his ap-
pearance on the field with his wound
half dressed, and fought, against the
remOnstrances of the whole command,
until carried off. Soon after, the re-
mainder of the brigade came up, a
gallant charge was made up hill, and
the enemy was dislodged and driven !
into the woods beyond. In this
charge a large number of the enemy
were killed with the bayonet. Du-
ring the remainder of the day the
regiment fought with its division
Three bayonet charges were made by
the regiment during the day, in each
of which the enemy were driven with
heavy loss. During the day the
lost nearly two hundred,
of whom almost one fourth were killed
On the field or afterwards died of their
wounds. Only seven men were unac-
counted for at the roll-call after the
action. The colors of the regiment
were riddled, and the blue field al
most completely carried away by shells
and bullets"
At the celebrated battle of Opequan,
Or Winchester, Colonel Hayes distin-
guished himself alike by his sound
Judgment and brilliant daring. Of
this affair we read in "OhiO in the
Wars"
"After the usual amount of march
ing and countermarchiRg, from the
4th to the 18th of September, the
battle of Opequan was fought on the
18th. General Cooks command was
in reserve, but was very soon brought
into action and sent to the extreme
right of the line to make a flank at
tack. Hayes brigade position was
reached under cover of an almost im-
growth Of cedar, crossing a
swanpy stream. Here the division
was halted and formed-First Brigade
,HayesO in front, and the Second
in the rear. Throwing
out line of skirmisher5 the brigade
rapidly to the front, driving
the enemy's cavalry. The national
cavalry at the same time advanced out
Of the woods on the right. After adj
vancing in this way across two or
three open fields, under a scattering
fire, the crest of a slight elevation was
when the enemy's infantry
line came into view, off diagonally
to the left front, and he opened brisk
artillery fire.
"Moving forward double quick un-
der this fire, the brigade reached a
thick fringe of underbrush, dashing
through which it came upon a deep
slough, forty or fifty yards wide, and
nearly waist deep, with soft mud at the
bottom, overgrown with a thick bed
of moss, nearly strong enough to bear
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