John
A. T. Hull was a lawyer by education, but never had much opportunity to
display his talents as such, for almost immediately after his admission to the
bar, in 1862, he enlisted in the Civil War, receiving a commission as First
Lieutenant, and during the same year was promoted to the Captaincy of Company C,
of the Twenty-Third Iowa Infantry, and held this position until the close of the
War, distinguishing himself for bravery on many battlefields, among which were
those of Port Gibson, Magnolia Hill, Raymond, Jackson, Champion Hill and Black
River Bridge. In the last engagement he was so severely wounded as to disable
him for service for some five months, at the end of which time he returned to
his post. At the close of the War he returned to Iowa and settled in Van Buren
County, entering upon the practice of his profession, which he continued until
1873, when he purchased an interest in and assumed control of the Davis County
Republican, at Bloomfield, "Which he managed with such skill as to attract
universal attention, and bring its young and accomplished editor into universal
notice and favor."
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