BUST VIEW OF 143RD NEW YORK OFFICER IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES

BUST VIEW OF 143RD NEW YORK OFFICER IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES

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CDV is of Jirah I. Young in a medium-colored civilian suit with a black felt collar, white shirt and dark bowtie.

Contrast and clarity are very good. Mount has clipped corners and the paper has some light surface dirt.

Reverse has a photographer’s imprint for PARMELEE’S… READING, MICHIGAN. Reverse also has an ID in modern pencil. Image came from an album of 143rd New York soldiers.

Jirah Isham Young was born in Sullivan County, New York. He was educated and employed as a teacher when the Civil War started. Young was commissioned a 1st lieutenant in Company H of the 143rd New York Infantry on October 8, 1862. He became ill in August of 1863 and in March of 1864 he was assigned to the Quartermaster’s Department in Nashville, Tennessee. Young was then made captain of Company G on May 31, 1865 and was mustered out on July 20, 1865 at Alexandria, Virginia.

While with the 143rd the regiment was engaged at Suffolk, Wauhatchie, Missionary Ridge, relief of Knoxville.

After the war Young moved to Michigan where he married and had two children. He ran a mercantile business until his death from disease on February 4, 1873.

Young is buried in Camden Cemetery in Camden, Michigan.    [AD][PH:L]

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