CDV is a small chest-up view of Jirah I. Young in a dark frock coat with shoulder straps. The image is a small oval mounted on a CDV sized card. At bottom is printed J. H. HUMMEL, HILLSDALE, MICH. Also at bottom is a bold period ink ID that reads “J. I. YOUNG, CAPT. CO E, 143 REGT., N.Y. S.V.I.”

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

Reverse has an advertisement for “MRS. A. D. HUMMELL DEALER IN MILLINERY AND FANCY GOODS, COMMERCIAL BLOCK, HILLSDALE, MICH.

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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