LEELAND HATHAWAY RECOLLECTIONS, #2954, ca. 1890s
Memoirs of Hathaway's early life on a plantation in Montgomery County, Kentucky, his
education, and his Civil War experiences as a lieutenant in the 14th Kentucky Cavalry.
Hathaway devotes several pages to the justification of the institution of slavery (1834-1861)
and mentions aid given him by his father's slaves in his preparations to join the Confederacy
(1861); the shooting of Confederate prisoners of war in Maryland
by black guards (1864); his reunion with a black Union officer who
was a former childhood playmate (1865); and discusses at length the
loyalty of one freed slave who remained with the Hathaway family after emancipation.
Microfilm available.
