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Metadata
Object Name |
Carte-de-visite |
Title |
Edwin Betts (also known as Thomas Edwin Betts) |
Catalog Number |
FIC2015.00014 |
Description |
Cdv of a drawing of a man, 3/4 pose, facing viewer's left, wearing double-breasted uniform coat, with insignia on collar; color added to hair, skin, face, eyes, beard, uniform; handwritten on obverse, "Cap. Edwin Betts"; handwritten on reverse, "Capt. Edwin Betts of Virginia" and "Taken at Johnson's Island by a fellow prisoner with materials obtained in Prison 1864. Presented by Mrs. Stiling Murry" and " 40th Virginia Co. C. Heathsville Gds." |
Studio |
unknown |
Photographer |
unknown |
Owner Regiment |
40th Virginia Infantry, Co. C, "Heathsville Guards" |
Provenance |
Capt. Edwin Betts of the 40th Virginia Infantry, Co. C. Drawing taken at Johnson's Island by a fellow prisoner with materials obtained in prison, 1864. Betts was wounded at Gettysburg; taken prisoner July 5, 1863 at Mercersburg; sent to Johnson's Island; transferred to City Point February 24, 1864; paroled May 2, 1865 on Northern Neck. |
People |
Betts, Edwin Betts, Thomas Edwin |
Search Terms |
Johnson's Island Military Prison |
Subjects |
Art Cartes de visite Civil War, U.S. Drawings Officers, Military Photographs Photography POW's Prisoners Prisoners of war Prisons |