| According to his enlistment record James K. Hyde, Jr. (1840-1922) was 22 years old, 5' 5", with grey eyes and brown hair, a Westchester native, and employed as a clerk, when he joined the 5th New York Volunteer Regiment in August 1862. The 5th was a Zuave regiment, colorful units distinguished by their baggy red pants. Hyde fought at the Battle of Chancellorsville, as the 5th collided with lead elements of Stonewall Jackson's Confederate corps on May 1, 1863. After that engagement, Hyde and other veterans whose enlistment terms had not yet expired joined the 146th New York, which was engaged at Gettysburg. The New Yorkers reached the Little Round Top late in the afternoon of July 2, helping to collect the wounded and round up Confederate prisoners following the famed bayonet charge of the 20th Maine. After the war Hyde lived in New Rochelle, and was a member of both the G.A.R. Farnsworth post and the New Rochelle Flandreau Post No. 509. He died at age 82, one of the last surviving Civil War veterans in southern Westchester.
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