VIGNETTE BUST VIEW OF 143RD NEW YORK CAPTAIN WITH PERIOD INK ID

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CDV is a vignette bust view of Edward H. Pinney in the uniform of a Union captain. The photographer made an attempt at highlighting the coat buttons and shoulder strap borders. Bottom of the image has period ink ID that reads “E. H. PINNEY, CAPT. 143RD N.Y. VOLS.”

Contrast and clarity are good. Upper right corner of the mount has a small bump and the paper shows some light surface dirt.

Reverse is blank but for a 2 cent tax stamp.

Edward H. Pinney was born October 4, 1823 in Boston, Massachusetts. Educated as a teacher he taught school in several places ending up in Pennsylvania. He married on Christmas Day of 1850 and went into the hotel business with his brother-in-law near Liberty, New York. After six months he sold his interest in the Liberty House and bought a farm near Chestnut Ridge and again taught school. He spent ten years on the farm and three of those years he studied law under one of his former pupils.

-In 1861 he sold his farm and moved to Jeffersonville, New York where he opened a law practice.

When war came, he was commissioned captain of Company F, 143rd New York Infantry on August 14, 1862 and was promoted to major on July 24, 1865, but was never mustered at that rank. He was mustered out at Washington, D.C. on July 20, 1865.

While with the 143rd the regiment was engaged at Suffolk, Wauhatchie, Missionary Ridge, relief of Knoxville, served throughout the Atlanta Campaign, Averysboro and Bentonville.

After the war he returned to his law practice in Jeffersonville until 1895 when he and his wife went to Liberty to live with Pinney’s brother-in-law where they remained until 1901 before moving to Kenoza Lake to live with their daughter.

Captain Pinney served as a Justice of the Peace, and served two consecutive terms beginning in 1880 as a Democrat in the State Legislature. He was also a special county judge and district attorney.

He died on September 8, 1912 and is buried in Liberty Cemetery in Liberty, New York.  [ad][ph:L]

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