NICE CLEAR BUST VIEW OF 143RD NEW YORK OFFICER WEARING 20TH CORPS BADGE - PERIOD INK ID

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Item Code: 1179-1917

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CDV is of Wallace W. Hill wearing a dark single-breasted frock coat with black felt collar and shoulder straps. Attached to his left breast is a commercially made 20TH Corps badge consisting of a five-pointed star with an enameled center, all within a circle.

Contrast and clarity are very good. Mount has clipped corners but both it and the paper are clean. Mount and image do have a faint crease running from the left edge and just reaching the subject’s shoulder. Crease is not obvious.

Reverse has a photographer’s imprint for R. A. LEWIS… NEW YORK along with a canceled 2 cent tax stamp. Top of reverse bears the following inscription in period ink “WALLACE HILL, 1ST LIEUT. 143D N.Y. VOLS, FREMONT CENTER, SULLIVAN CO, N.Y.”

Wallace W. Hill was born in Fallsburg, New York on July 18, 1833. He enlisted at Fremont as a 1st sergeant in Company A, 143rd New York Volunteers on October 8, 1862. He was made 2nd lieutenant on October 17, 1863 but was not mustered, 1st lieutenant of Company I on April 18, 1864 and adjutant on July 24, 1865 but he was not mustered at that rank. He was discharged in Washington, D.C. on July 20, 1865.

After the war, Hill was a hotel keeper and an active member of several GAR Posts. Later in life Hill was an elevator operator in the Swamp-Root building in Binghampton, New York. He died on the job, in his elevator car, on March 9, 1907 and is buried in Floral Park Cemetery, Johnson City, New York. In his obituary it is said that he went to work in the Swamp-Root building in September of 1906 “…and won the hearts of all with whom he came in contact by his cheery disposition and good nature.”    [ad][ph:L]

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