Record Group 15: Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, 1773 - 2007 Series: Case Files of Approved Pension Applications of Veterans Who Served in the Army and Navy Mainly in the Civil War and The War With Spain ("Civil War and Later Survivors' Certificates"): Nos. SC 9,487 - 999,999, 1861 -

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Record Group 15: Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, 1773 - 2007 Series: Case Files of Approved Pension Applications of Veterans Who Served in the Army and Navy Mainly in the Civil War and The War With Spain ("Civil War and Later Survivors' Certificates"): Nos. SC 9,487 - 999,999, 1861 - 1934 File Unit: Approved Pension File for 1st Lieutenant William D. Matthews, Independent Battery, U.S. Colored Light Artillery (SC-606091)

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Matthews, William Dominick, 1829-1906

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Matthews was born October 25, 1829, on the eastern shore of Maryland. William Dominick Matthews was born free to mixed-race parents. His father, Joseph, was a man of African descent who hailed from Delaware. His mother, the half-white slave daughter of a Frenchman, had gained her release from bondage upon her father’s death. Matthews moved to Baltimore in the late 1840s and worked as a sailor until 1854, when he purchased his own vessel and worked the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River. But discri...