The Reconstruction Era and Rutherford B. Hayes

The attack of Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, however, infuriated him. On June 27, he was commissioned a major in the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. An ... There's one place where Hayes stands as a historical heavyweight: in the tiny South American nation of Paraguay. The first biography of Hayes in nearly fifty years, Hoogenboom's book recreates the rapidly changing world of Victorian America as experienced by one of its ... Rutherford B. Hayes was the 19th president of the United States (1877–81), who brought post-Civil War Reconstruction to an end in the South ... The Ohio Senate passed Senate Bill 62, sponsored by State Senator Bill Reineke (R-Tiffin), to designate October 4 as Rutherford B. Hayes Day in Ohio. Lucy Ware Webb Hayes served as First Lady of the United States as the wife of the 19th President, Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881). A major general in the Civil War; a two-term Ohio Representative, and a three-term Ohio Governor, before becoming President. Rutherford B. Hayes. © 2 Oregon Historical Society. Oregon's First Presidential Visit, 1880. WHEN PRESIDENT RUTHERFORD B. HAYES became the first presi-. AbstractRutherford B. Hayes inherited a political-economic disaster from his predecessor. The long-promised return to the gold standard ... The railroad's workers in Martinsburg, West Virginia and Baltimore, Maryland went out on strike, stopping the movement of all trains.