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John Middleton Hewett (Jefferson County, Kentucky, photographer and U.S. Army captain)

b. 1813-07-08 d. 1904-06-07

Jefferson County, Kentucky, photographer and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Ruth Potter Hewett in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on January 9, 1839. Father of Marian Hewett, Alfred B. Hewett, and Ellen Hewett. Daguerreotypist in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Ambrotypist in Louisville in 1860. Served in the 1st Kentucky Light Artillery Regiment (U.S.A.) as a captain from October 8, 1861, to November 16, 1864. Captured at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, on July 13, 1862. Prisoner of war at Richmond, Virginia, on October 11, 1862. Paroled at Aiken's Landing, Virginia, on October 12, 1862.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, p. 252B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 5, p. 151.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 8, p. 89A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film #000817878, p. 110.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0146.

U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Illinois, Application #435976, Certificate #467072.

Find A Grave, "Capt John Middleton Hewett (1813-1904)," Memorial #15152625, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15152625 (accessed January 10, 2021).

Citation

Hewett, John Middleton. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209349 (November 12, 2026).

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