Ezra J. Mathewson, cdv

Title

Ezra J. Mathewson, cdv

Date

1863

Description

cartes-de-visite (card photographs)

Subject

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Portraits

18th Connecticut Infantry

cdv

Civil War

Connecticut Military Units - Civil War

Source

Civil War Letters and Miscellanea Collection, MS 060

Abstract

Mathewson first enlisted in the 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery in 1861 and re-enlisted and made Captain of Company K of the 18th Connecticut; captured in June 1863 at the Battle of Winchester (Gettysburg Campaign) and paroled in December of 1864. In 1883, he was collecting a pension for disease of the Kidneys and bowel. (https://books.google.com/books?id=prgqAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA583&ots=tlCJHLUvkT&dq=Ezra%20J.%20Mathewson%2018th%20Connecticut&pg=PA583#v=onepage&q=Ezra%20J.%20Mathewson%2018th%20Connecticut&f=false)
On the reversed side of the photograph, states, WM. T. Dyer, Artist, Putnam, Conn.