Collection Summary
Redway, Hamilton K.
Hamilton K. Redway Family Papers
4 boxes, 2 oversize boxes
1825-1916
1861-1886
MSS Hamilton Redway Collection
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Creator Sketch
Hamilton K. Redway served as a corporal in Company K, 24th Regiment of the New York Volunteers
(1862-1863) and as lieutenant and later captain of Company F, 1st New York Volunteer
Veterans Cavalry (1863-1865) during the Civil War. After the war, Redway, who was a
white man, was second lieutenant in Company D, U.S. Colored Cavalry (1866).
Scope and Contents Note
The collection includes correspondence, a diary, legal documents, financial documents, and
printed material relating to Redway's activities in the Union Army. A number of
ordnance lists and muster rolls are included in the collection, as well as several
captured orders from Confederate General James Longstreet's command (1862).
Correspondence, legal documents, financial documents, and printed material
pertaining to Redway's wife, Loriette, are also included. The records are divided by
type into two record series: Military Records; and Personal Papers. Among the
personal papers are two small, pocket sized (photocopied) notebooks in which Redway
kept track of the equipment issued to the men under his command and also made notes
about who was in the hospital, who was promoted, and who was on furlough. Some of
the larger documents in the collection have been removed for storage into oversize
boxes. There is a separation sheet noting when material has been removed from a
folder and indicating where it is being housed.
Arrangement
Materials in the collection are divided into two series: Military Records; and Personal
Papers. Within the series, records are roughly grouped by type of document. There
appears to be no chronological order for the folders, but within each folder for a
particular military company, records are arranged chronologically. These folders
include records from Company F, Company K, Company B, Company I, and Company D.
Personal papers include wartime and post-war correspondence, some business materials
and legal documents, and a diary spanning the years 1862 to 1875. Also included are
two notebooks, one undated and the other dated 1864.
Restrictions on Access
Open for research.
Literary Rights Statement
For reproduction of any copyrighted materials, permission must be obtained from the
owner of the copyright. This is a responsibility of individual researchers, not the
University Archives.
Materials are available for research only in the University of North Texas Archives,
during its normal hours of operation. Materials are not loaned out. Depending upon
how fragile the materials are, they may or may not be allowed to be photocopied or
scanned.
Index Terms
Organizations:
United States Army, Company K, 24th Regiment of
the New York Volunteers. United States Army, Company F, 1st New York Volunteer
Veterans Cavalry. United States Army, Company D, U.S. Colored
Cavalry.
Subjects:
Redway, Hamilton K., 1835. Redway, Hamilton K., 1835-
-- Correspondence. Redway, Hamilton K., 1835- -- Archives. Redway, Chauncey H.,
d. 1854. Redway, Chauncey H., d. 1854 -- Archives. Redway, Loriette C. Redway,
Loriette C. -- Correspondence. Redway, Loriette C. -- Archives. United States --
History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Calvary operations. United States -- History
-- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Equipment and supplies. United States -- History --
Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography. Confederate States of America -- History,
Military. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation,
African American.
Places:
New York. Camp Piatt, West Virginia. Lawrence,
Kansas.
Document Types:
Correspondence, diary, legal documents, military
documents, financial documents, printed material.
Administrative Information: Custodial History
C. H. Redway and Reginald Redway donated the collection to UNT in the 1920s or 1930s.
Preferred Citation
Hamilton K. Redway Family Papers, University of North Texas Archives, Denton, Texas.
Detailed Description of the Collection
Series 1, Military Records
1995
1
Deceased Soldiers' Documents (Passes for Transportation),
1861-1862
1995
2
Printed Material: Company B, Proof of Muster,
1865
1995
3
Military Activities: Correspondence (Envelopes),
c. 1830, 1864, n.d.
1995
4
Correspondence: Company F, Soldier Substitutions,
1864
1995
5
Military Activities: Correspondence, Company F: Papers relating to the death of
Andrew M. Anderson,
1864-1866
1995
6
Military Activities: Legal Documents, Company F,
1864
1995
7
Military Activities: Personal Business (Bill), Company F,
1865
1995
8
Military Activities: Legal Document (Relinquishment of Property),
1865
1995
9
Enlistments,
1863-1865
1995
10
Military Activities: Company F, Literary Productions (Note, Speech),
1864
1995
11
Military Activities: Company F, Literary Productions (Record Book of Passes,
Passes),
1865
1995
12
Military Activities: Company F, Correspondence (General Orders, Special Orders,
Circulars),
1864-1865
1995
13
Military Activities: Company F, Literary Productions (Muster List),
1863-1865
1995
14
Military Activities: Company F, Literary Productions (Army Register),
1865
1995
15
Military Activities: Company F, Printed Material (Discharge, Proof of
Muster),
1865-1866
1995
16
Military Activities: Company F, Printed Material (Descriptive Lists, Muster Rolls)
[Some moved to oversize box],
1864-1865
1995
17
Military Activities: Company F, Printed Material (Pay List),
n.d.
1995
18
Military Activities: Company F, Printed Material (Provost Marshal's Office,
Deserters),
1864
1995
19
Military Activities: Company F, Printed Material (Transportation
Records),
1864-1865
1995
20
Military Activities: Company F, Printed Material (Company Returns) [Some moved to
oversize box],
1864
1995
21
Military Activities: Printed Material (Clothing and Equipage),
1864-1865
1996
1
Military Activities: Company F, Printed Material (Clothing and Equipage,
Envelopes),
1865, n.d.
1996
2
Military Activities: Company F, Printed Material (Quartermaster's
Records),
1864-1865
1996
3
Military Activities: Company F, Printed Material (Ordnance Vouchers),
1864-1865
1996
4
Military Activities: Company F, Printed Material (Ordnance Records),
1864-1865, n.d.
1996
5
Military Activities: Company F, Printed Material (Ordnance Stores),
n.d.
1996
6
Military Activities: Company F, Printed Material (Blank forms for Ordnance
Stores),
n.d.
1996
7
Military Activities: Company F, Printed Material (Forage Reports),
1865
1996
8
Military Activities: Company F, Printed Material (Monthly Return of Public
Animals),
1864-1865
1996
9
Military Activities: Company F, Printed Material (Envelopes),
1865, n.d.
1996
10
Military Activities: Company D, Literary Production (Speech),
1866
1996
11
Military Activities: Company D, Printed Materials (Discharge),
1866
1996
12
Military Activities: Company D, Printed Materials (Clothing and Equipage,
Envelopes),
1866
1996
13
Military Activities: Company D, Printed Material (Quartermaster's
Stores),
1866
1996
14
Military Activities: Company I, Correspondence (Letters, General Orders, Circulars;
10th Alabama, Lt. General Longstreet),
1862-1863, 1865
1996
15
Military Activites: Company D, Printed Materials (Quartermaster's
Roll),
1866
1996
16
Military Activities: Printed Material (Ordnance Records),
1865-1866
1996
17
Military Activities: Circulars,
1864-1865
1996
18
Military Activities: Company F, Clothing,
1864-1866
1996
19
Military Activities: Clothing,
1865
1996
20
Military Activities: Enlistment (Franklin Jewell),
1864
1996
21
Military Activities: Company F, Expenditures,
1864-1866
1996
22
Military Activities: Forage,
1863-1865
1997
1
Military Activities: Company F, Correspondence,
1865
1997
2
Military Activities: Forms - Blank,
Undated
1997
3
Military Activities: Company F, Furloughs, Leaves,
1864-1865
1997
4
Military Activities: Horses,
1864-1865
1997
5
Military Activities: Hospital, Admittance and Discharge,
1864-1865
1997
6
Military Activities: Hospital, Clothes Issue,
1864
1997
7
Military Activities: Hospital, Reports,
1865
1997
8
Military Activities: Orders, Court Martial,
1864
1997
9
Military Activities: Orders, General,
1864-1865
1997
10
Military Activities: Orders, Special,
1864-1865
1997
11
Military Activities: Ordnance Voucher,
1865
Series 2, Personal Papers
1997
12
Personal Papers: Business Correspondence,
1865-1888
1997
13
Personal Papers: Legal Documents,
1868, 1875-1876
1997
14
Personal Papers: Literary Productions,
1865-1868, n.d.
1997
15
Personal Papers: Literary Productions,
1865, 1866
1997
16
Personal Papers: Printed Material,
1866-1876, n.d.
1997
17
Personal Papers: Printed Material,
1825-1843
1997
18
Personal Papers: Legal Documents (Will and Mortgage),
1841, 1854
1997
19
Personal Papers: Correspondence (Loriette C. Redway),
1865-1919
1997
20
Personal Papers: Financial Documents,
1890-1914
1997
21
Personal Papers: Legal Documents (Loriette C. Redway) [Moved to Oversize
Box],
1888-1890
1997
22
Personal Papers: Printed Material (Loriette C. Redway),
1903, 1914, 1916, n.d.
1997
23
Personal Papers: Correspondence (Envelopes),
1906, 1919, n.d.
1997
24
Personal Papers: Literary Productions,
n.d.
1997
25
Personal Papers: Correspondence to his wife,
1864-1865
1997
26
Personal Papers: Correspondence to his wife,
1865-1867
1997
27
Personal Papers: Correspondence (from O. G. Bacon),
1867
1998
1
Redway Diary (photocopy),
1862
1998
2
Redway Diary (photocopy),
1864
1998
3
Redway Diary (photocopy),
1865
1998
4
Redway Diary (photocopy),
1866
1998
5
Redway Diary (photocopy),
1869
1998
6
Redway Diary (photocopy),
1870
1998
7
Redway Diary (photocopy),
1871-1872
1998
8
Redway Diary (photocopy),
1872
1998
9
Redway Diary (photocopy),
1875
1998
10
Redway Notebook (photocopy),
n.d.
1998
11
Redway Notebook (photocopy),
1864
Oversize 1995
no folders
Correspondence, Special Orders, Muster Rolls, Printed Speech, Clothing and Equipage
Records, Payroll Records, Return Reports, Quartermaster Records,
Ordnance Records, Instructional Brochure, Morning Reports for Company F,
1st Regiment, New York Veterans Volunteer Cavalry, and Company Orders
book for 1st Regiment, New York Veterans Volunteer Cavalry,
1863-1865, n.d.
Oversize 1996/1997
no folders
Scrapbook of clippings and drawings, Officer's Commission, Muster Roll, Clothing
Allowance, Inventory and Inspection Report, Ordnance Record, Blank
Ordnance Forms, Blank Certificates of Promotion, Certificate Accepting
Henry Ellis into Company I, Correspondence to Loriette Redway, Record of
Enlistments, Appointment to the Metropolitan Police Force of Washington,
D.C., Warranty Deeds,
1852, 1856, 1861-1862, 1864-1866, 1868, n.d.