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Asbury Farnham Haynes
Born	(1842-09-04)September 4, 1842 Edinburg, Maine
Died	July 8, 1931(1931-07-08) (aged 88) Seattle, Washington
Buried	Lake View Cemetery
Allegiance	United States of America
Service / branch	United States Army
Rank	Corporal
Unit	Company F, 17th Maine Volunteer Infantry
Battles / wars	American Civil War Battle of Sailor's Creek
Awards	Medal of Honor

Asbury Farnham Haynes (September 4, 1842 – July 8, 1931) was a Union Army soldier in the American Civil War who received the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor.

He was awarded the Medal of Honor for extraordinary heroism shown on April 6, 1865, during the Battle of Sailor's Creek, where he captured the colors of the 21st North Carolina in Lewis' Brigade, Walker's Division, of Gordon's 2nd Corps, while serving as a corporal with Company F, 17th Maine Volunteer Infantry.

Hawthorne moved to the state of Washington after the war and died there aged 88 on July 8, 1931. He was buried at Lake View Cemetery, Seattle.

Medal of Honor citation

Capture of flag of 21st North Carolina.

Notes

Dyer (1908), p. 541.
Houghton (1866), p. 267.
^ CMOHS (2014).
VCOnline (2020).
War Department (1880), p. 171.

References

Dyer, Frederick H (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co. ASIN B01BUFJ76Q.
Houghton, Edwin B (1866). The Campaigns of the Seventeenth Maine. Portland, ME: Short & Loring. ISBN 978-0469474062..
War Department, U.S. (1880). The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. OCLC 857196196.
"HAYNES, ASBURY F." Congressional Medal of Honor Society. CMOHS. 2014. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
"Asbury Farnham Haynes". THE COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO THE VICTORIA & GEORGE CROSS. VCOnline. 2020. Retrieved 2 May 2020.

External links

"Asbury F. Haynes". Claim to Fame: Medal of Honor recipients. Find a Grave. Retrieved 11 December 2014.

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