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Albert Clinton Hayden was a 25 year old nail maker in Weymouth when he enlisted in August 1862 as a Private in Company H, 35th Massachusetts Infantry. Just under a month later he was wounded at Antietam. Disabled, he was sent home in November. He died a year after the war eneded, of tuberculosis, just 29 years old.

His photograph is online in the Historical Data Systems database.