Hay, John

Ind., 1838- ——. A writer who was Lincoln’s private secretary, adjutant, and aide-de-camp during the Civil War, and also served under Generals Hunter and Gill more as major and a istant adjutant-general, being brevetted colonel. He was subsequently in the diplomatic service. Life of Abraham Lincoln (with J. G. Nicolay, infra ); Pike County Ballads, and Other Poems; Castilian Days, a volume of travels. Of his dialect poems, Jim Bludso and Little Breeches are the best known. Cent. Hou.