Ludlow at Fort Monroe, Agent for Exchange of Prisoners. In just three days, the letter made its way to the Commissary-General of Prisoners Col. I at first refused to give it on the ground that I was a surgeon and could not be paroled, but Steward took the ground that as I was not in charge of any sick at Warrenton I should be treated like any other officer in the same circumstance and if I refused my parole I should go a prisoner to Richmond.”Īnnotations on the back of Hayward’s letter show a series of referrals. When the 12 th Regiment had decamped from Warrenton, he stayed behind to recuperate and was captured when Confederate troops marched into town. He explained that he had been ill for some time. On 26 November 1862, Hayward forwarded his parole to the assistant adjutant general in Washington, enclosed in a letter describing the circumstances of his capture. Paragraph 4 of the order read: “The principle being recognized that medical officers should not be held as prisoners of war it is hereby directed that all medical officers so held by the United States shall be immediately and unconditionally discharged.” On 26 June, the Confederate States of America did the same with its General Order No.

War Department, stated in no uncertain terms that medical personnel were off-limits. Hayward’s capture was complicated by the fact that he served as a non-combatant. On the reverse of this document is a note granting Hayward passage “from Confederate into Federal lines.” Robert Randolph of the Black Horse Troop, 4 th Virginia Cavalry. The Hayward collection contains some fascinating documents related to this incident, including the certificate of his parole, signed by Capt. Unfortunately, on 19 November 1862, he was captured by the Confederate Army at Warrenton, Va. Mac served with distinction at Bull Run, Antietam, and other battles. While still in his twenties, Mac was commissioned surgeon of the 12 th Regiment of Massachusetts Infantry, otherwise known as the “Webster Regiment” after its first commander Col. His family had already produced a number of doctors, including his father Joshua Henshaw Hayward, his uncle George Hayward, and his grandfather Lemuel Hayward.

John McLean Hayward, or “Mac,” graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1858. The collection contains over two centuries of correspondence, diaries, sketchbooks, and other personal papers of members of the Hayward family of Milton, Mass., including Civil War surgeon John McLean Hayward (1837-1886). Hayward family papersis one of five collections on deposit at the MHS from the Mary M.

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