Biography of Edward Mortimer Hayes



Excerpted from "Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society, 1911-1912", Edited by Geo. W. Martin, Secretary. 

Vol XII., State Printing Office, Topeka, Kansas 1912.



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EDWARD MORTIMER HAYES was born in New York city, December 23, 1842. He enlisted in the Second cavalry as a musician August 

8, 1855, being assigned to the troop of which Edmund Kirby Smith was captain and of which Fitzhugh Lee became a lieutenant 

the following year. After serving the full term of five years for which he had enlisted, he was discharged and returned to 

the East with hope of securing an appointment as a cadet at West Point, being still less than eighteen years old. In this 

he was disappointed, however. He entered the volunteer military service during the Civil War, was commissioned first 

lieutenant of the Tenth Ohio cavalry January 15, 1863, and was promoted to captain's rank March 24, 1864. He was 

commissioned a second lieutenant of the Fifth United States cavalry (his old regiment) February 23, 1866, and advanced to 

the grade of first lieutenant on the 20th of the following August. He saw severe service on the plains of western Kansas 

during the later sixties, and was breveted major for distinguished service at the battle of Beaver creek, October 16, 1868, 

where he was temporarily serving as quartermaster of Colonel Carpenter's command. He was promoted to captain August 15, 

1874; to major of the Seventh cavalry April 7, 1893; to lieutenant colonel of the Fourth cavalry July 3, 1899; to colonel 

of the Thirteenth cavalry February 17, 1901; to brigadier general January 15, 1903, and was retired from the active service 

January 28, 1903. General Hayes is familiarly known among his old comrades-at-arms as "Jack" Hayes.



(Included with the article: "Indian Fight in Ford County in 1859," page 323)