ID’D BUST VIEW OF 143RD NEW YORK OFFICER IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES

ID’D BUST VIEW OF 143RD NEW YORK OFFICER IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES

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Item Code: 1179-1927

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Image is a bust view of Jirah I. Young in a dark civilian suit.

Contrast and clarity are good. Mount has clipped corners. Paper and mount have light surface dirt. Below the image the paper is lightly marked in period pencil with “YOUNG.”

Reverse has a photographer’s imprint for FRANK H. PRICE… ELIZABETH, N.J.

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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