The General’s Wife: Harriet Ward Hawley in the Civil War (Annotated)

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In a reverent and touching biography, Harriet Ward Foote Hawley’s life right through the Civil War is illuminated for the modern reader. Wife of a Union officer, Harriet could not take a seat idly by even as men were sick, wounded, and dying for their country. She worked in Union hospitals all through the war even as her husband was once in combat. Harriet was once exposed to Each and every disease that camp life incubated in the soldiers. She came to love them like sons and spoke of them tenderly as “my boys.” She was once also exposed to the heart-rending sights of torn and broken bodies, and the deaths of many whom she came to love. Yet she stayed on. She attended Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural and wrote of it in letters. She saw Walt Whitman working as a nurse in Armory Hospital. After the war, her husband was once elected to Congress and they became a part of Washington life. Each and every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country ceaselessly. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is to be had as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers, tablets, and smartphones. Make sure you LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.

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