Carte de visite photograph of Hays in uniform. Chest up view wearing double-breasted frock with collar insignia visible. Image is clear with very good contrast. Mount features a preprinted background with an oval with small (1-1/8" x 1-5/8") photograph pasted in the center. Actual photo has some wrinkling. Pencil identification on front. No photographer's backmark.

Harry Thompson Hays (April 14, 1820 – August 21, 1876) was an Army officer serving in the Mexican–American War and a general who served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

In 1861, he entered the Confederate Army as Colonel of the 7th Louisiana Infantry. He led the 7th Louisiana in the Battle of Bull Run, the Shenandoah Campaign and was promoted Brigadier General in July 1862. Assigned command of the 1st Louisiana Brigade (Louisiana Tigers), he fought at Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and at Gettysburg in July 1863. At the Battle of Spotsylvania, he was wounded by a shell fragment and after his recovery, was transferred to the Trans-Mississippi for the remainder of the war.

After the war, Hays went back to New Orleans, where, after receiving a pardon from President Andrew Johnson, he served as Sheriff of Orleans Parish for a year. He played a prominent role in the July 1866 New Orleans Riot, at one time deputizing nearly two hundred of his former soldiers who were now members/beneficiaries of the "Hays Brigade Relief Society." Hays was removed from office in November by Federal government officials, at the insistence of influential former Union general Philip H. Sheridan. He returned to his law practice until his death at age 56 of Bright's disease. Hays was interred at Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 in New Orleans.  [jet] [ph:L]

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