An Agriculturist’s Legacy
A Confederate veteran became a United States Congressman and agriculture’s most ardent ally. William Henry Hatch passed the bar in 1854 and moved from his native Kentucky to Hannibal, Missouri. There he practiced law, became a Democrat, and was elected a circuit attorney in 1858. In the early days of the Civil War, Hatch was commissioned a captain by the Confederacy; in 1862, […]