Fighting Joe Hawley

Download or read book Fighting Joe Hawley written by Kevin J. Murphy and published by . This book was released on 1914-01-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Hartford lawyer Joseph Hawley, an abolitionist and the first Connecticut resident to enlist in the Union Army following the attack on Fort Sumter, who later served as Connecticut's governor, congressman, and U.S. senator. His first wife, Harriet (Hattie) Ward Foote, became a Civil War nurse who served in Washington, D.C. and died shortly after the adoption of their child. Hawley's second wife, Edith Anne Horner, was a British Nightingale nurse who received the Royal Red Cross for her service in the Zulu War in South Africa and after her husband's death became president of the Visiting Nurses Association in Hartford, Connecticut.