(CIVIL WAR--INDIANA.) Photograph of blind Civil War veteran Charles Springer Myers with his son.
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(CIVIL WAR--INDIANA.) Photograph of blind Civil War veteran Charles Springer Myers with his son. Albumen photograph, 3¾ x 2 inches, on original plain mount, with pencil caption on verso "1868, Charles Springer Myers and son Charles William Myers"; minor foxing, bottom ¼ inch separated from the remainder by a clean incision. No place, 1868 Charles Springer Myers (1834-1920) of Gosport, IN is shown with his son Charles William Myers (1860-1911), who likely served as his eyes. He had been a married blacksmith with three children before enlisting in the 21st Indiana Infantry, and was severely wounded at Port Hudson in 1863, filing for an invalid pension within months. In the 1880 census for Gosport, Indiana he is listed as a blind broom-maker, and is also listed in the 1910 census as blind. His 1920 death certificate lists him as a blacksmith; he died in Gosport.
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(CIVIL WAR--INDIANA.) Photograph of blind Civil War veteran Charles Springer Myers with his son.
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