BUST CDV IMAGE OF 141ST PENNSYLVANIA OFFICER - WAS THE ONLY CAPTAIN LEFT IN HIS REGIMENT AFTER GETTYSBURG

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Bust view of Joseph H. Horton in the uniform of a Captain. Image has good contrast and clarity but there is some surface dirt including some on one side of Horton’s face but this does not detract.

Bottom front has a light inscription that reads “SINCERELY YOURS, J. H. HORTON 141ST P.V.”

Reverse has canceled green 2cent stamp and photographer’s imprint of M. A. KLECKNER… BETHLEHEM, PA. Very bottom of the reverse has a period inscription of “TERRYTOWN, BRADFORD, CO. PA.” For some reason this inscription is repeated in ballpoint pen above the period one.

Joseph H. Horton was born in Terrytown, Pennsylvania on June 2, 1842. The 20 year old clerk was commissioned a 1st Lieutenant in Company A, 141st Pennsylvania on August 21, 1862. He was promoted Captain on December 18, 1863, wounded at Spotsylvania on May 12, 1864, promoted to Lieutenant Colonel March 18, 1865 and mustered out on May 28, 1865.

The 141st served in the 3rd Corps of the Army of the Potomac until march of 1864 at which time it transferred to the 2nd. The regiment lost heavily at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Spotsylvania.

When Horton died on August 14, 1916 his death notice claimed that he was the only Captain left in the regiment when the shooting stopped at Gettysburg.  [ad]

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