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[Identification of item], Hathaway Family Photographic Collection, PA59M113,Special Collections and Digital Programs, University of Kentucky.
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.
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.
Hathaway, Leeland.
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
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.