Crimean War gained worldwide attention for pioneering and publicising modern nursing while treating the wounded. The Crimean War also saw the first tactical use of railways and other modern inventions, such as the electric telegraph, with the first "live" war reporting to "The Times" by William Howard Russell. Some credit Russell with prompting the resignation of the sitting British government through his reporting of the lacklustre condition of British forces deployed in Crimea. Additionally, the telegraph reduced the independence of British overseas possessions from their commanders in London due to such rapid communications. Newspaper readership informed public opinion in the United Kingdom
Howard William Stull as a Republican to the Seventy-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of J. Russell Leech. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1932. He resumed the practice of law, and died in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Interment in Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown. Howard William Stull Howard William Stull (April 11, 1876 – April 22, 1949) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Howard W. Stull was born on a farm near Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He attended the Johnstown High School, and State Normal School (later State Teachers’ College) in Indiana, Pennsylvania. He was employed