Biography

Romeyn B. Ayres was a Brigadier General who served in the Union Army during the Civil War. He began his service during the Mexican-American war. During the Civil War, he fought in or commanded in the First Bull Run Campaign, The Peninsula Campaign, The Seven Days Battles, the Battle of Antietam, The Battle of Fredericksburg, The Gettysburg Campaign, Grant's Overland Campaign, and The Appomattox Campaign. At the end of the war he was promoted to the rank of Major General, and after the war returned to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and commanded a number of different garrison positions in the South. In 1879 he was promoted to Colonel of the 2nd Artillery.