Postbellum Career
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 of the "Hays Brigade Relief Society." Hays was removed from office in November by the Federal Government at the insistence of influential former Union general Philip H. Sheridan.
Hays was a Freemason, receiving his degrees in Louisiana Lodge #102 in New Orleans. He then returned to his law practice until his death at age 56 of Bright's disease. Hays is buried in Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 in Washington Avenue Cemetery in New Orleans.
He is the namesake of the Major General Harry T. Hays, Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp # 2019 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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