CDV is a chest-up image of Horace Boughton in the uniform of a brigadier general.

Contrast and clarity are very good. Mount and paper are also in good condition, however the paper has a small area at bottom left where it was lifting from the mount. Bottom center of the mount has publishing information for 1865.

Reverse has a photographer’s imprint for BRADY’S …. WASHINGTON, D.C. & NEW YORK. There is also an ID in modern pencil. Identity is confirmed by other online images.

Horace Boughton was born in Rush, New York on March 23, 1833. He was trained in the law before being commissioned a 1^st lieutenant in Company D, 13^th New York Infantry on May 14, 1861. He was promoted to captain of Company E, on January 9, 1862 and discharged for promotion on October 20, 1862. While with the 13^th The regiment was engaged at 1^st Bull Run, on the Peninsula, 2^nd Bull Run, Antietam, and Shepherdstown.

He joined the 143^rd New York as lieutenant-colonel two days later, on the 22^nd and was made colonel of the regiment on April 30, 1863. Boughton was made brigadier general by brevet on March 11, 1865 for meritorious service during the war and was mustered out at Washington, D.C. on July 20, 1865. While Boughton was with the 143^rd it was engaged in Shermans Campaign for Atlanta and the march into the Carolinas

After the war Boughton moved to Texas where he held several political offices. In 1870 he was the Democratic nominee for the US Senate but was defeated in the election. It is said that for the last 10 years of his life he was nearly an invalid due to remaining all night in the waters of the Little Tennessee River building a pontoon bridge to allow a division to cross the river for General Burnside’s relief.

Boughton died in Washington, D.C. on November 8, 1891 and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.    [AD][PH:L]

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