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Blazo, Erza G. (Civil War correspondence and photographs)
2020.116.w.r
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Contributing Institution:
Center for American War Letters Archives
Title: Ezra G. Blazo Civil War correspondence and photographs
Creator:
Blazo, Ezra G., Private, 1833-1863
Identifier/Call Number: 2020.116.w.r
Physical Description:
.6 Linear Feet
(14 folders)
Date (inclusive): 1825 - 1887
Abstract: This collection contains 25 letters from Pvt. Ezra G. Blazo, USA during the Civil War, as well as 46 photographs and 28 legal
documents.
Language of Material:
English
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Container: Civil War 7
Container: 11-24
Container: 1-14
This collection is open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Rachel Howard
This collection is organized chronologically and by material type.
Private Ezra G. Blazo, United States Army (1833 - 1863) of the 20th Regiment of Illinois Volunteers (Company A) was born in
Maine to parents Ebenezer and Elizabeth Gibbs Blazo. He had a younger brother, Amos. He married Emily W. Nickerson in Lowell,
Massachusetts in November of 1854. The couple had one child the following year, a son named William W. Blazo. Ezra enlisted
in 1861 under the alias Charles G. Blazo, and died in a hospital in St. Louis in September 1863.
[Item title / description; Box "n" / Folder "n"], Ezra G. Blazo Civil War correspondence (2020.116.w.r), Center for American
War Letters Archives, Chapman University, CA.
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collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.
This collection contains 25 letters from Pvt. Ezra G. Blazo, USA to his father and younger brother, Ebenzer and Amos, while
serving with the Union Army during the Civil War. There are also three letters sent to Ebenezer from a hospital nurse in St.
Louis regarding Pvt. Blazo's illness and subsequent death. The collection contains one photograph and 45 cartes de visite
of unidentified (with one exception) individuals. The majority of these images were produced by a studio in Belfast, Maine.
There are 28 legal documents; mostly deeds in which Ebenezer Blazo was an interested party.
There are no restrictions on the use of this material except where previously copyrighted material is concerned. It is the
responsibility of the researcher to obtain all permissions.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Correspondence -- American Civil War