The Press., 1886-07-15

tive service a5 hospital visitor, moving from place to place with the movement of forces, almost constantly surrounded by discomforts and familiar with sufferings that would have prostrated one not inspir- ed and upheld by holy consecration and sublime enthusiasm. For nearly year including the battle summer of 1864, she had charge of 6 ward in the Armory square hospital in Washington. She overcame the limitations of an individuals strength and multiplied her usefulness by leading others to follow her example of devotion to hospital service.
 In . private letter, written when the tfdings of Lees surrender came in April, 1865, she tells how all thoughts of self were lost in her absorbing love for the union and it's defenders 1:
 To-day we have been firing salutes and ringing bells for the capture of Richmond. You should have heard the hoarse voices of the boys in the hospital as they tried to cheer when they heard the bells this noon. stood still in the street and cried like a child when heard them, and 1t all rushed over my mind at onc5 how much 1t meant to them"
 Captain O'Farrel, of Washington, writes that Mrs. Hawley spent fully two-thirds of her time in Washington working quietly
 
 and orphans. She had desk, like an at torney's, always filled with letters and claims. The veterans have lost a great friend ill Mrs. Hawley."
 In scenes of brilliant gaiety and splen- did ceremony Mrs. Hawley was true to her native dignity, and added something of graceful lustre to the laurels won by her husband as brigadier general, state governor, United States senator and presi- dent of the centennial commission of 1876. She was loyal to her husband wherever duty called. She found pleasure in help ing one who was always unselfshly busy in the faithful discharge of public duties. She had the command of innumerable dexterities, ingenuities, and providences that were invaluable to family that must be both hospitable and economical. Her home life had it's inner sanctities, and the world need never know for how much of strength and wisdom and high purpose her husband was indebted to the great heart and the noble life that were devot- edly his ''for better, for worse for richer, for poorer. ," When the final parting came, March 3, 1886, she had no fear. She said to her husband, "I am glad to have been your wife-to have worn your colors through a happy life. I trust my heaven. ly Father as child trusts it's earthly fa- ther. am going to nay best friend. l shall see Him as He is.
 It was beftting that woman 50 divine ly gifted with the sweetest graces and dignities of womanhood, so faithful to the highest duties and privileges, so positively and -helpfully patriotic, should be honored at her burial with such tributes of love as are given to 8 nations benefactors. II was beGtting that her last journey from Washington to Hartford should be attend ed with sad procession of mourning sen ators, soldiers and friends that she should s be carried to-the grave in a casket draped with the stars and stripes, by veterans o the. old seventh regiment who cherish SC many grateful memories of her peerless fidelity amid the dangers of camp life and 1 battle. Mrs. Hawley will be remembered in histoEysas- "A perfect woman, nobly planned To warn, to comfort and command;
 And yet spirit still, and bright,
 With something of an angel light"