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
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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.
Ezra J. Mathewson, Cdv. 1862, Digital Archival Objects at WestConn, accessed January 22, 2026, https://archives.library.wcsu.edu/omeka-s/s/digital/item/4339



