to the mounted rifles, and promoted 2d lieutenant, 18 April, 1847. He saw service during the military occupation of Texas in 1845-'6, and took part in all the principal battles of the Mexican war, being brevetted 1st lieutenant, 20 Aug., 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contre- ras and Churubusco, and captain on 13 Sept., for gallantry at Chapultepec. After the conclusion of the Mexican war, he was chiefly engaged in fron- tier duty and on various expeditions against the Indians until 1861, when he was acting as chief of commissariat in the Department of New Mexi- co, after receiving a captain s commission on 13 Oct., 1860. On 28 Sept., 1861, he was made brigadier- general of volunteers, and in December following was placed in command of a brigade of cavalry at Annapolis, Md., under Gen. King. He distin- guished himself by several daring reconnoissances about Gordonsville, the Rapidan, and the Rappa- hannock, and afterward commanded the cavalry of the 5th army corps, taking part in the battles of Winchester, Groveton, and Manassas, Va., where he was wounded and made brevet major for '• gallant and meritorious services." He was again severely wounded at the battle of South Mountain, Md., 14 Sept., 1862, and brevetted lieutenant- colonel. Disabled by his injuries and unable to report for duty until 18 Feb., 1863, he was then employed on courts-martial, assigned to command the draft rendezvous at Philadelphia, and given charge of the cavalry depot at St. Louis until 27 Oct., 1863, when he was made major of the 4th cavalry. During the remainder of the war he was assigned to various commands in the Department of the South, being in charge of John's Island and Honey Hill, S. C, during the attacks on those places. He was also under Gen. Sherman's orders, co-operating with him while the latter was moving up the coast, and participating in several skir- mishes. From 26 Feb. to 26 Aug., 1865, he was in command of the Charleston district. Department of South Carolina. On 13 March of the latter year he was brevetted colonel and brigadier-general for his services during the civil war, and major-gen- eral of volunteers for the same cause. From the close of the war until 1881 he was on duty prin- cipally in Texas, the Indian territory, Montana, and Washington territory, and was promoted colo- nel, 2d cavalry, 26 June, 1881. Col. Hatch re- mained in command of his regiment until 9 Jan., 1886, when he was retired by operation of law.
HATFIELD, Edwin Francis, clergyman, b.
in Elizabethtown, N. J., 9 Jan., 1807 ; d. in Sum-
mit, N. J., 22 Sept., 1883. He was graduated at
Middlebury college in 1829, studied theology at
Andover seminary, and was ordained on 14 May,
1832. He was pastor of Presbyterian churches in
St. Louis, Mo., and New York city, until failing
health compelled his resignation in 1863. He
then became special agent of the Union theologi-
cal seminary, and raised a large sum for its en-
dowment. From 1846 till 1870 he was stated
clerk of the new-school Presbyterian church ; at
the union of the new and old school churches, in
1870, he was re-elected to this office, and continued
in it till he became moderator of the general assem-
bly in 1883. He received the degree of D. D. from
Marietta college in 1850. He left his library of
more than 6,000 volumes to Union theological
seminary. He published " Universalism as it Is"
(New York, 1841) ; " Memoir of Elihu W. Bald-
win" (1843); "St. Helena and the Cape of Good
Hope " (1852) ; " History of Elizabeth, N. J." (1868) :
"The Church Hymn-Book, with Tunes" (1872);
" The New York Observer Year-Book " (3 vols.,
1871-'3); "Chapel Hymn-Book" (1873); and a
S)sthumous work, edited by his son, J. B. Tavlor
atfield. " Poets of the Church " (1884).
HATHAWAY, Benjamin, poet, b. in Cayuga
county, N. Y., 30 Sept., 1822. He was the eldest
of eight children, and was taken from school and
put to work at the age of eleven on account of
family reverses. Although shut out from libraries
and deprived for many years of all literary associa-
tion, he made the most of his meagre opportunities
for culture. His taste for poetry found congenial
themes in the woods, fields, and flowers. Many of
the poems afterward collected in his " Art Life "
were first written with chalk upon barrel-heads dur-
ing his employment as a cooper. They were com-
posed amid the noise and clatter of the shops, and
in the evening, often after nine o'clock, as he usual-
ly worked until that hour, they were transcribed
upon paper. An early developed fondness for trees
and plants and their cultivation led Mr. Hathaway
to add to his other enterprises the business of nur-
seryman, which he followed in connection with the
farm for over thirty years. It was late in life before
he could devote much time to his favorite studies
so as to plan or prosecute any large or consecutive
work. For ten years, however, intellectual pursuits
occupied much of his attention. He spent several
winters at the University library, Ann Arbor, Mich.,
in researches for his " League of the Iroquois "
(Chicago, 1880), and several more in Chicago, en-
gaged upon that work and upon a collection of
miscellaneous poems entitled " Art Life " (1876).
HATHEWAY, Samuel Gilbert, pioneer, b. in Freetown, Mass., in 1780 : d. in Solon, Cortland co., N. Y., 2 May, 1867. He was descended from the navigator. Sir Humphrey Gilbert. By the death of his father he became dependent on his own exertions at the age of nine years, worked on several farms, went to sea, and, having saved a small sum of money, set out before he was twenty years of age for western New York, then a wilderness, and purchased three hundred acres of uncleared land in Cortland county. His wisdom, frugality, and industry enabled him in time- to accumulate a comfortable property. He was elected justice of the peace in 1810, which office he held forty-three years, represented Cortland in the legislature in 1814 and 1818, was state senator in 1822, and in 1832 was elected to congress as a Democrat, serving in 1833-'5. In 1852 he was a presidential elector. He was greatly interested in military matters, and rose through various grades till he was commissioned major-general of militia in 1823. His personal popularity enabled him to hold in his control almost every executive appointment in his district. He was the friend of Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. At the age of eighty Mr. Hatheway attended the national Democratic convention at Charleston, S. C. See a memoir of his life by Henry S. Randall (Cortland, N. Y., 1867).— His son, Samuel Gilbert, soldier, b. in Freetown, Mass., 18 Jan., 1810; died in Solon, N. Y., 16 April, 1864, was graduated at Union college in 1831, studied law, and in 1833 removed to Elmira, N. Y., and began practice. He served in the legislature in 1842-'3, declined a renomination in 1844, and resumed practice. He was a defeated candidate for congress in 1856 and in 1862, and the next year entered the army as colonel of the 14th New York regiment. He afterward commanded Abercrombie's division, as acting brigadier-general, but in 1863, the exposures of camp-life having produced disease of the heart, he was compelled to resign, and died a few months afterward.
