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THBCivil War Diary and Correspondence of William W. Hathaway, 17th North Carolina Infantry
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Original war-date journal and sketchbook from CSA private William W. Hathaway, 17th North Carolina Infantry, for 1862.
Joseph B. Hathaway and Eveline Hathaway found an abandoned baby in Tyrell County, North Carolina on October 4, 1836. They took in the child as their own and named him William W. Hathaway, celebrating his birthday as the day they discovered him. The family was poor and used to heartache. Joseph worked as a laborer and cared for his seven children, but only three survived him. Joseph joined four of his children in the afterlife before 1860; leaving the young Hathaway as the head of the household.
Hathaway worked as a farmer before enlisting in the Confederate army on April 2, 1862. He was commissioned a sergeant in the second organization of the 17th North Carolina Infantry, Co. H. Before departing for the front, several of his friends scrawled their names and personal messages inside his journal. Charles F. Harget and Steven E. Russell wrote, We part today never to meat again. Harget mustered into the 2nd North Carolina Infantry and was wounded at Malvern Hill, while Russell mustered into the 51st North Carolina Light Artillery. He became sick and left his regiment for a short time, only to re-enlist and serve with the 2nd Light Artillery.
Hathaway had a tender heart, he enjoyed drawing and writing poetry in his spare time. When he joined the war effort, he continued to draw and write. Before leaving home he wrote an original piece that read:
Oh beauteous peace
Sweet union of our state
What else but thou gives
Safety strength and glory to a people
Such alas is not ours to be thankful for
We live in a state of wore and not of peace,
(September 18, 1862).
Not long after leaving, Hathaway suffered from a serious illness that hospitalized him for quite some time. He wrote his mother, If it should be my fate to fall in the defence of my country I hope the prears of my beloved mother will folter me to my grave where I am no more on earth but I hope to meate them and you in a better world than this where wore is over and truble is no more for ever (Confederate Hospital, Raleigh, NC, September 20, 1862). He continued to write original poetry and sketch in his journal from his bedside. The journal also included prayers for the Confederate President, a roster of all of the battles in the Civil War and Revolutionary War, and copies of other works that touched him. Towards the beginning of his journal he gives very brief, but descriptive excerpts of the action and movements of his troop during his first combat experience at Plymouth as well as the attempt to take the capitol.
Hathaway survived the war and his illness, but he was demoted to a private sometime before 1863. He is on record up until 1864. There are no records of when he mustered out of the army or if he surrendered at any time. It is possible he saw action at Bermuda Hundred, Cold Harbor, the siege of Petersburg, and surrendered with the Army of Tennessee near Durham’s Station, NC on April 26, 1865.
The lot also includes various documents relating to his service and letters from descendants concerning genealogical research.
Wear of the cover and binding, some seperation of the pages from the binding as well as toning of the paper and some brittleness.Condition
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