Hathaway Family Photographic Collection
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Hathaway Family Photographic Collection
- Date
- 1886
- Extent
- 0.25 Cubic feet
- Subjects
- Fort McHenry (Baltimore, Md.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
- Students--History.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], Hathaway Family Photographic Collection, PA59M113,Special Collections and Digital Programs, University of Kentucky.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Captain Leeland Hathaway (1834-?) was a Confederate officer during the Civil War. He was educated at Western Military Institute in Georgetown, Kentucky, the Kentucky Military Institute in Frankfort, Kentucky, and at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Hathaway rode with John Hunt Morgan during the Kentucky 14th Calvary's raids in Indiana and Ohio in 1863. After the fall of Richmond, he volunteered to be a bodyguard for Varnia Howell Davis, wife of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. While under the command of General Basil Duke, he was captured along with Davis and his wife. He was imprisoned at Western Pennsylvania Penitentiary as well as Point Lookout, Maryland, Fort Delaware, and Fort McHenry, in Baltimore.
- Scope and Content
- The Hathaway Family Photographic Collection (.25 cubic feet, dated ) consists of twenty-two albumen carte-de-visite, one autochrome, two silver prints, and four photostats. All concern the life and career of Captain Leeland Hathaway (CSA). The autochrome is a particularly rare format and one of the earliest types of color photography. The albumen carte-de-visite were housed in a Civil War-era photo album.
Restrictions on Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access
- Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright has not been assigned to the University of Kentucky.
Contents of the Collection
Album, 1860s
Scope and Contents note
Twenty-two albumen carte-de-visite housed in a Civil War-era photo album. The album contained the following, handwritten note on the front papers:
Bought in Pittsburg for me
by [illegible] [illegible] of [illegible] [illegible]
while I was confined in the
Allegany city penn
Penitentiary as a prisoner of
war, Sept. 1963.
Taken from me by a soldier
of the 4th Kentuckyan [sic] cavalry
when I was captured with
Jefferson Davis in Georgia, May
10th, 1865. Recovered and returned
to me by Ellen, Mrs. Davis'
servant girl. Afterward
taken from me by provost
Marshal at Ft. McHenry
in June 1965, delivered [illegible]
on my release from Ft. McH
in [illegible] / 65
LH
Leeland Hathaway, Confederate soldier; handwritten in ink "Affectionately your [illegible], Leeland Hathaway, adjt. major 12gt 4 cav CSA", 1860s
General Felix Kirk Zollicoffer (CSA), 1860s
General Basil W. Duke (CSA), 1860s
Unidentified man in civilian clothing, 1860s
Major General Sterling Price (CSA), 1860s
General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (CSA), 1860s
General Basil W. Duke (CSA), 1860s
General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson (CSA), 1860s
General Simon Bolivar Buckner (CSA), 1860s
General Simon Bolivar Buckner (CSA), 1860s
General Kirby Smith (CSA), 1860s
Jefferson Davis, President, Confederate States of America, 1860s
Major General Wallack (CSA), 1860s
Inset of Confederate States of America flag, with caption "IN MEMORIAM", 1860s
"Mrs. Leeland Hathaway" handwritten in ink on back, 1860s
Unidentified woman, 1860s
Unidentified woman, 1860s
Unidentified woman; "To the happy family at Fort Lookout, Maryland" handwritten in ink on back, 1860s
Ruth Hathaway; "To brother Lee from sister Ruth" handwritten in pencil on back, 1860s
Woman with infant; handwritten in ink on the front "Your Faithfully, Varnia Davis"; written in pencil on back "Davis child with Nurse", 1860s
"Miss Maggie Howell, sister of Mrs. Davis" handwritten in ink on the front, 1860s
Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan (CSA), 1860s
Miscellaneous, 1899, undated
Scope and Contents note
Series consists of one autochrome, two silver prints, and four photostats. The autochrome is a particularly rare format and one of the earliest types of color photography. The two prints and the four photostats concern fox hunting in Estill county, Kentucky.
Identified as Carrie Hathaway (Leeland Hathaway's daughter) in a acquisition note from 1968. This is unlikely due to the limited time autochromes were reproduced, Carrie Hathaway's age, and the apparent age of the subject of the image., [n.d]
"Lizzie and Dick, Property of Wm. Hals" handwritten on the back, [n.d]
Unidentified group of men on horseback, [n.d]
Group of men; written on the back of the photo (imaged on the same sheet of photostat) "Left to Right seated: Leeland Hathaway, Brigadier General William Stephen Walker, Col. Scagg. Standing Left to Right: Roger Williams, Brady Frank, William Ramsey, William Grady, Dr. Sturgill", 1899
Leeland Hathaway; handwritten on back in pencil: "Master of Hounds at the meet of the National Foxhunters Association at Estill Springs November 1899.", 1899
National Foxhunters Association - group photo; Leeland Hathaway, seated, center, 1899
Leeland Hathaway and Carrie Lee Hathaway; handwritten in ink on the back" Miss Carrie Lee Hathaway, Winchester, and her father Captain (CSA) Leland [sic] Hathaway at a meet of the foxhunters association.", 1899
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