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Edward Hale was born on December 25, 1839, in Haymount, Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States, the son of Edward Jones Hale, a well-known and able editor, and Sarah Jane Walker.
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Volume 1 Published in 1901, this is a collection of the histories of the regiments and battalions from North Carolina that served the Confederate States during the Civil War. Includes the Bethel Regiment through the 16th Regiment.
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Edward Hale was born on December 25, 1839, in Haymount, Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States, the son of Edward Jones Hale, a well-known and able editor, and Sarah Jane Walker.
Edward prepared for college at Fayetteville, then entered the University of North Carolina in 1856 but was compelled by illness to withdraw immediately. He spent the year in travel, and, returning the next year, was graduated in 1860.
After graduation Edward Hale at once became associated with his father in the conduct of the Fayetteville Observer.
Upon the outbreak of the Civil War Hale enlisted in the Confederate army, refusing a commission at first because of his ignorance of military matters. He served from Bethel to Appomattox, at both of which he was present, rising to the rank of major and assistant adjutant-general of Lane’s North Carolina brigade. His last promotion was given for “conspicuous gallantry and merit. ” He was three times wounded in battle.
After the close of the war he was in business for a short time in New York City but soon returned to North Carolina and reestablishd the Fayetteville Observer, which he edited with one intermission until 1913.
In 1885 President Cleveland appointed Hale consul at Manchester, where he remained four years. He became widely popular in England, was on terms of friendship with many of the leaders in public life, was elected to many organizations, and was in constant demand as a speaker. At the conclusion of his official service he was sent by the North of England Trust Company to India as a commissioner with large powers to deal with problems connected with the indigo crop and to prepare a report upon them. He handled the matter so satisfactorily that the company urged him to accept a permanent position with it, a proposition which he rejected when he discovered that it involved the surrender of his American citizenship.
Before he returned to the United States and to his editorial duties he stopped again in Manchester, served as vicepresident of the International Congress on Navigation (1890), and in 1890-1891 was American commissioner of the Manchester ship canal. In 1893 he declined appointment as minister to Turkey.
In 1913 President Wilson appointed him minister to Costa Rica, where he served until diplomatic relations were severed in 1919.
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In politics Edward Joseph Hale was an active Democrat and served as delegate at large to the Democratic national conventions in 1884 and from 1896 to 1912.
Hale was a man of wide learning and genuine culture, who always impressed a new acquaintance as belonging to an earlier day. A fine example of the “old-fashioned Southern gentleman, ” he was big-hearted, hospitable, and deeply interested in people as well as in affairs.
On January 15, 1861, Edward Joseph Hale was married to Maria Rhett Hill, of Chatham County. She died many years later and on December 5, 1905, he married Caroline Green Mallett of Fayetteville.