Of Bedford, Ohio. One of four Mathews brothers serving in the Civil War. Enlisted Oct 9, 1861 and served in Co.D,
41st OVI. He went through 3 years of fierce fighting until he was captured by the Confederates Oct 23, 1864, and spent a year in southern prison camps, including seven months in Andersonville. Liberated at war's end, he was among 2000 prisoners being transported home, on the steamer SULTANA when it exploded near Memphis, Tennessee. 1700 died. Orlo was one of the few servivors. He was discharged June 22, 1865. He settled in Bedford. He died at the age of 55, in 1897, when he was kicked by a horse he was shoeing. His name is on the Civil War Monument in Bedford Square. He was buried in Bedford cemetery, Jan 22, 1897.
(General History of Cuyahoga County, p112, gives his name as Orson C, Mathews)
41st OVI. He went through 3 years of fierce fighting until he was captured by the Confederates Oct 23, 1864, and spent a year in southern prison camps, including seven months in Andersonville. Liberated at war's end, he was among 2000 prisoners being transported home, on the steamer SULTANA when it exploded near Memphis, Tennessee. 1700 died. Orlo was one of the few servivors. He was discharged June 22, 1865. He settled in Bedford. He died at the age of 55, in 1897, when he was kicked by a horse he was shoeing. His name is on the Civil War Monument in Bedford Square. He was buried in Bedford cemetery, Jan 22, 1897.
(General History of Cuyahoga County, p112, gives his name as Orson C, Mathews)
Of Bedford, Ohio. One of four Mathews brothers serving in the Civil War. Enlisted Oct 9, 1861 and served in Co.D,
41st OVI. He went through 3 years of fierce fighting until he was captured by the Confederates Oct 23, 1864, and spent a year in southern prison camps, including seven months in Andersonville. Liberated at war's end, he was among 2000 prisoners being transported home, on the steamer SULTANA when it exploded near Memphis, Tennessee. 1700 died. Orlo was one of the few servivors. He was discharged June 22, 1865. He settled in Bedford. He died at the age of 55, in 1897, when he was kicked by a horse he was shoeing. His name is on the Civil War Monument in Bedford Square. He was buried in Bedford cemetery, Jan 22, 1897.
(General History of Cuyahoga County, p112, gives his name as Orson C, Mathews)
41st OVI. He went through 3 years of fierce fighting until he was captured by the Confederates Oct 23, 1864, and spent a year in southern prison camps, including seven months in Andersonville. Liberated at war's end, he was among 2000 prisoners being transported home, on the steamer SULTANA when it exploded near Memphis, Tennessee. 1700 died. Orlo was one of the few servivors. He was discharged June 22, 1865. He settled in Bedford. He died at the age of 55, in 1897, when he was kicked by a horse he was shoeing. His name is on the Civil War Monument in Bedford Square. He was buried in Bedford cemetery, Jan 22, 1897.
(General History of Cuyahoga County, p112, gives his name as Orson C, Mathews)
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