The Press., 1886-03-11
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MRS. GENERAL HlwLEY.

| ing of the 25th she had a chill, which was attributed to nervous indigestion. The next day she was quite ill and the phyHi. elan pronounced the malady pneumonia, affecting one lung. She was not regarded critically unwell until Tuesday, and it was only few hours before her death yester- day that her friends in this city became se- rioualy alarmed by the tenor of the dis patches. Mrs Hawley has not been ln robust health since the war and lacked physical vigor to withstand the disease
 Mrs. Hawley wss of Puritan stock, born in Guilford. a daughter of Colonel George Foote. and on the maternal side connected
 with the Wards and Beechers. She was of slight frame and delicate organization,
 he intell, ual element predominating over the physical, and making her appar- rntly unfitted to endure hsrdsbipas But she always took & keen interest in public
 fairs from the dals of the free-sol strug-
 gle until the war. Her patriotism wasl m | t nse, aud while her husband was m the
 field, (g irg with her blessil 6 in the first volu"t CT regimei from the slate Tor three | mont hs campaigns , she was earnestly ia-
 boring with other noble ladies of the state
 to help the soldiers in the field and to re- ieve the sick and wounded. But she
 could not be cuntent.d Nith home lie
 while her inauguration pictured the need ot
 woman's ministrations on the field, and m
 he frll of 1862 she ioiIn d her husband,
 t @ Colo pl Hawlev, of the Seventh regi-
 m mt, at Beaufort, s. c. From this time
 to Ih,, clo of the war she remaiped in
 activ. serv,ce as hospital visitor. Many
 colder now lviug will forever bless her
 uemorv, ar q he last h. urs of many Uere
 c nsnl. by h r sweet ninistratious. She
 devoted such me ,s her health would per
 mir tu the sork at FernHndina, St. Helena,
 Hilton Head, aud finally in charge of a
 ward in Armery Square hospital in Wash
 lngtun, position to iTy the nerve and ex-
 aust the vitality of the strongest nature.
 Mrs. Hawley. reached this hospital the
 morning after the wounded began to ar-
 rlve from the battles of the Wilderness.
 Her ward WAS one of the largest, contain
 ing at one time 97 patients, and to add to
 It's horror there was DO separate operating
 room. In one day during that terrible
 April forty-eight patients died. The hos-
 piIal which was designed for 900 patients
 vas at tn. 'ime compelled to receive and
 ca 'e for ], 400.
 Surrouau by such scenes, Mrs. Flaw ley lived in the hospital in charge of the
 ward assigned her for four long months ;
 months of the severest labor, taxing her utmost strength and drawing upon her deepest sympathies. In September her
 health fail, and she was obliged to relin- - quish the charge, returning, however, in
 November and remaining until March, 1865 The simple story of her work needs 2 no comment to tell of her character.
 , After the capture of Wilmington, IN. O., . General Hawley was assigned to the com
 mand of department with headquarters at that city Here Mrs. Hawley joined , lhin and here she had a new experience ot Z the horrors of war, in the reception oi ' 9.O00 union prisoners from Andersonville | and Fiorehce. The city was in filthy Q condition, fever broke out, prostrating !, hundreds, and the deaths were by the score. [ The chief of the medical staff died; of i've n professional lady nurses from the north
 three sickened and two died and among - the detailed soldier nurses the fatality was E worse than in battle. Mrs. Hawley ex' ], lerted herself to the utmost to afford relief. She organized the woman who volunteer ed to help. supefiniended the making ol
 garments. visited the hospitals, and shun r ned no danger, not even the smallpox. D In Moores "Women of the War" . chapter is given to the work of Mrs. Flaw l. ley, in which ,xtracts are made from pri vate letters writ en at the tme to friends y in the north. Written with no thought : of publication, they were the most vivid ( picture of the dreadful realities of the war u We make a single quotation from a lettel T from Washington in April 1865 - fr.. h.. '' More than forty men, whose feet, CT DOT ,, tions of them had rotted of, left on th u steamer yesterday. I do not know how man,
 more such cases there had been among them B but these men saw Think of it feet B, l. routed away that the surgeons cut then of 6 with the scissors above the ankle Has Go,
 any retribution for those who inflicted suol l. suifering2 Has their country any reward 6 for the men who suffered thus, month nfte L month, rather than turn traitor-rather thAi t deny the old fagp a
 o-day we have been firing salutes an' a ringing the bells for the capture of Richmond
 You should have heard the hoarse voices O
 the boys in the hospitals, as they tried t cheer when they heard the bells this noon stood still in the street, and cried like chil' l when heard them and it all rushed ove $ my mind at once how much it meant to ths7s In July, 1865, Mrs. H"wley accompa l. nied Der husband to Richmond, wher' e General Hawley bad been appointed chic l f staff 10 Major General Terry. Thet 0 home was in the house deserted by Jeffer | son Davis, after Appamattox. Here nh' l. enjoyed a restful summer and anticipated [
 petdy return to home and peace. But n S October, while returning from the battle
 
 d with an. uncle, to find the gr-ve of his son c he anbularce in which sbe r,de was over s turned and she received injuries to heat
 aud spine which made her an invalid fo Il many years, and from which she never fnl
 ly recovered. Her Eutfrrings for year e were intens,, but were borne with TO ' tient, accomplishing heroism, character istic of the noble life now ended.
 e In her Hnrtford life since the war, Mrs
 Hawley has bren known as taking livel, } interest, SO far as her impaired healil e would permit, in I'll social, literary an' }. char be work With estlletic tastes ant l. k, en nrt,stic sense she did much to as o sst m the organi zation and success of th ,- D. corative Art Society. When the battl r flags were to be rembyed in 1879 from th s arsenal to the capitol she was one of tn '- committee of ladies to whom was entrusi r. I'd the work of arranging the tattered flag IT so that they could be carried in the parade
 It was to her a fearful task, and abe va l. completely overcome when she came C > the old flag of the Seventh, bearing mark l. of repairs made by her during the war
 and in the defense of which a believe,
 brother lost limb, and, eventually, hi ' life as.la la gs
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