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Autographs, Hoadley Collection
17th-20th Century
15 Boxes

Letters, autographs, documents, account books, journals, correspondence and other papers compiled by Charles Jeremy Hoadley (b.1828). Only materials pertaining to the Civil War were examined. Box 4, Folder 34125, holds the majority of the Civil War items. Collection includes letters and/or signatures of both Union and Confederate officers and politicians, including Generals W. T. Sherman, John E. Wool, Robert E. Lee, William B. Franklin, Oliver O. Howard, Ambrose E. Burnside, George Meade and many others. An inventory of autographs by category is filed before Box One of the collection in the manuscript stacks. of service.
Location: MS Hoadley Collection, Box 4, Folder 34125S

Box 1
Box 3
Box 4
Box 7
Box 10

Of General Interest:

It is interesting to note that C. J. Hoadley had a brother, Frederick William Hoadley (1831-1863), a major with the 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery, CSA, who was struck in the heart by a shell fragment and killed at Vicksburg in June 1863. Another brother, James Henry Hoadley, served in the U. S. Navy until 1862. The Civil War mayors of Hartford were: Henry C. Deming, 1860-1862; Charles Benton, who served for two months in 1862; W. J. Hamersley, 1862-1864; and Allyn S. Stillman, 1864-1866.

 
 
 

Inventory of Civil War-Related Papers
[Edited and transcribed by K. Nolin, M.L.I.S., Assistant Library Director, The Connecticut Historical Society]

 
 
 
 

Box1


Folder 34103: Letter, W. P. Fessenden, Secretary of the Treasury, to Samuel H. Hamilton, Chief Clerk, Court of Claims, Washington, DC, 20 December 1864, regarding the erection of a branch mint in California.

Folder 34104: Letter, F. W. Seward, Assistant Secretary of State, Washington, DC, to Charles Jeremy Hoadley, Hartford, CT, 8 April 1864, regarding the printing of the President's proclamations.

Folder 34109: Letter, J. A. Garfield, Brigadier General, Headquarters, Army of the Cumberland, Murfreesboro, TN, to Major Edwin D. Judd, Paymaster, USA, 9 February 1863, regarding pay and stoppages.

Box 3

Folder 34120: Broadside advertisement for The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates by Edward A. Pollard. Signed by E. A. Pollard, New York, and dated 30 June 1866.

Folder 34121: A Rainy Day in Camp (14 pp., printed poem. No date, publisher or place of publication). Signed by Dorothea L. Dix (d.1887).

Also contains a manuscript genealogy of the Grant family with a biographical sketch (18 pp.) of Ulysses S. Grant, by J. [?] R. Grant, Covington, NY [?], dated 18 February 1865 as well as items pertaining to the Grant Family Association, newspaper clippings and a printed program for the Grant Memorial Services, Hartford, 8 August 1885, at the First Regiment Armory.

Box 4

Folder 34125:

  • Letter, William Whann MacKall, CSA, 5 April 1862, to the soldiers of his command.
  • Letter, Nathaniel Lyon, pre-Civil War, 9 April 1853, to his brother.
  • Letter, William Tecumseh Sherman, post-Civil War, 17 June 1877, and signature, 15 December 1868.
  • Letter, John E. Wool, pre-Civil War, 10 March 1860, to Henry L. Kellogg.
  • Signature of Colonel Hiram Berdan, commanding U. S. Sharpshooters.
  • Letters, Darius Nash Couch, post-Civil War, 2 February 1877 and 30 October 1891.
  • Letters, William Buel Franklin, post-Civil War, 10 January 1868 and 6 April 1881.
  • Letter, William Hemsley Emory, post-Civil War, 8 January 1867 [1868?].
  • Letters, Asa Bird Gardner, post-Civil War, 10 November 1876 and 27 January 1881.
  • Signatures, Quincy Adams Gillmore, 11 August 1863 and 4 November 1863.
  • Signature, John Porter Hatch, undated.
  • Letters, Rush Christopher Hawkins, post-Civil War, 19 September 1888 [?] and 1 June 1890.
  • Letters, Joseph Roswell Hawley, July 1863 [?] and 11 October 1865
  • Letter, William Silliman Hillyer, 31 August 1861.
  • Signature, Oliver Otis Howard, post-Civil War, 22 April 1867.
  • Signature, Ambrose Everett Burnside, undated.
  • Letter, David Hunter, 12 June 1863.
  • Letter, Robert E. Lee, post-Civil War, 3 January 1866 and envelope dated April 1868.
  • Letter, George Gordon Meade, post-Civil War, 26 September 1868.
  • Letter, Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel, pre-Civil War, 3 November 1860.
  • Signatures, Rufus Saxton, post-Civil War, undated and 8 May 1865, and Letter, 29 April 1865.
  • Signature, James Wolfe Ripley.
  • Letter, Fitz-John Porter, post-Civil War, 2 April 1868.
  • Letters, Robert Patterson, post-Civil War, 19 May 1865 and 1 September 1868.
  • Letters, John Clifford Pemberton, CSA, 27 May 1863 and 24 January 1866.
  • Signature, Truman Seymour, 30 December 1863.
  • Letters, Morgan Lewis Smith, CSA, 12 and 14 November 1862.
  • Letters, Alfred Howe Terry, post-Civil War, 19 January and 26 May 1866, 15 December 1877, and 21 February and 5 March 1878.
  • Letter, George Henry Thomas, 27 August 1863.
  • Signature, Stewart Van Vliet, post-Civil War, 18 April 1865.
  • Letters, Orlando Bolivar Wilcox, post-Civil War, 17 May, 24 October and 5 November 1897.
  • Letter, Julius White, post-Civil War, 20 November 1868.
  • Letter, Edward Augustus Wilde, 5 December 1863.

Folder 34126:

  • Request to Rear Admiral D. G. Farragut, Commanding Western Gulf Blockading Fleet, 3 December 1862, from Lt. Edward Terry, to conduct a survey of twelve wardroom chairs aboard the U. S. S. Richmond.
  • Request from Rear Admiral D. G. Farragut, aboard the Flagship Hartford, New Orleans, 4 December 1862, to Lt. John C. Watson and Acting Masters T. L. Peterson and Fred. T. King to conduct the inspection as stated.
  • Reply to Rear Admiral D. Farragut from Watson, King and Peterson aboard the U. S. S. Richmond, 5 December 1862, off New Orleans, stating that the chairs had been surveyed and found worn out and unfit for use (2 copies). This reply is approved and signed by Farragut.
  • Autograph only: "Flagship Minnesota May 16/63 Yours very truly S. P. Lee A.R.A."

Box 7

Folder 34136: Letter, William Faxon, Navy Department, Washington, DC, to Charles Jeremy Hoadley, Hartford, CT, 10 January 1863, regarding the difficulty of securing an appointment for Hoadley's brother as Assistant Paymaster due to the large number of men seeking such appointments.

Box 10

Folder: "Confederate Papers"

  • Certificate, Phoenix Fire Insurance Company, Hartford, to M[eriwether]. Jeff[erson]. Thompson (1826-1876), St. Joseph, MO, 23 April 1859, appointing Thompson as agent for the Company in Buchanan County, MO. Signed by Thompson, later known as the "Swamp Fox of the Confederacy."
  • Note in the hand of Alexander Stephens, Washington, DC, dated 8 January 1894.
  • Note in the hand of Montgomery Meigs [?]. Post-Civil War.
  • Special Orders No. 36, Headquarters, 1st Cavalry Corps, Spring Hill, TN, 29 March 1863, directing that Brigadier General For[r]est will detail one company at once from his command to take post at Columbia, TN, and relieve Capt. Scales's Company, now on duty at that post. By command of General Van Dorn. This appears to have been the copy belonging to Lt. Wood, commanding Capt. Scales's Company.
  • General Orders No. 8, Headquarters, 1st Cavalry Corps, Spring Hill, TN, 14 May 1863, regarding the impending departmental inspection by Major E. Dillon, Inspector General, 1st Cavalry Corps. By order of Brigadier General Jackson.