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32 was led by General Truman Seymour with Colonel Hawley in command of a brigade. This led to the disastrous battle of Olustee, February 20, 1864, where the Federal troops lost 1861 out of 5560 men and fell back to Jacksonville. The Confederate loss was 940. The Federal troops in Florida and South Carolina were ordered to Virginia and Colonel Hawley commanded the 2d brigade in Terry's 1st division, Gillmore's 10th army corps, Army of the James, at Drury's Bluff, Deep Run and in engagements near Bermuda Hundred. At Newmarket Road he commanded a division and in the siege of Petersburg he commanded the 2d brigade, Foster's division, Terry's 24th army corps. He was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general, United States volunteers, September, 1864. In January, 1865, when General Terry was ordered to Fort Fisher, North Carolina, General Hawley was given command of the division; and on General Terry's return to the Army of the James he made General Hawley his chief of staff of the 10th corps. He commanded southeastern North Carolina as military governor, February 22 to June, 1865, and was chief of staff to General A. H. Terry in command of the department of Virginia with headquarters in Richmond, June to October, 1865. He returned to Hartford, Connecticut, in October, 1865. He was brevetted major-general of volunteers, January 15, 1866, when he was mustered out of the service.

General Hawley was elected governor of Connecticut in April, 1866, but was defeated for reelection in 1867, and resumed his editorial duties, having united the "Press" and "Courant," and he vigorously defended the principles and policy of the Republican party in reconstructing the Southern states. He was president of the Republican national convention of 1868 which nominated General Grant for the presidency. He represented the Hartford district in the United States congress in the forty-second and forty-third Congresses, 1872-75; was defeated in the elections of 1874 and 1876, but elected in 1878 to the forty-sixth Congress. In the house he served on the committees on Claims, Banking and Currency, Military Affairs and Appropriations.

He was elected United States senator from Connecticut as successor to William W. Eaton, Democrat, in 1881, was reelected in 1887, 1893 and 1899, his last term to expire March 3, 1905, at which time his health precluded further service. In the senate he served continuously on the committee on Military Affairs and for several