Tintype with hardtack frame
date: label: associated date
content: 1861-1865
notes: label: Description
content: This innovative piece of memorabilia consists of a tintype of Augustus B. Hayes in a hardtack frame. At the age of 18, Hayes enlisted in the 1st Regiment Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery Battery B on August 8, 1862. Hayes was wounded on December 31, 1862 in the Battle of Stones River. Despite this he served three more years and was mustered out June 16, 1865.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
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content: Civil War
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content: Military
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Hayes A. Newby and Nannette Newby Warner
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0916.02
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0916.02
label: accession number
content: 1979.0916
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
label: Other Terms
content: photograph; Tintype