Extremely rare view with Tucker & Perkins, Augusta, Georgia back mark
(1833-1908) Born in Charleston, S.C., he graduated in the West Point class of 1854. He resigned his commission in the U.S. Army on Feb. 20, 1861, and joined the Confederate army with rank of captain, and his early war service was that of aide-de-camp to Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard. An artilleryman, he served with that branch of service through all the early Virginia campaigns and at Sharpsburg, with rank of colonel. On Nov. 6, 1862, he was appointed brigadier general and was assigned to the command of Gen. Pemberton's artillery at Vicksburg. He was captured with the garrison and exchanged in July 1863. Promoted to major general in Aug. 1863, he was assigned command of the cavalry in the Dept. of Mississippi, Alabama, West Tennessee and East Louisiana. Promoted to lieutenant general in early summer of 1864, he took over command of Gen. John Bell Hood's old corps of the Army of Tennessee, which he led during the Tennessee and 1865 Carolina campaign. After the war he lived in Mississippi where he became a senator, and the first president of Mississippi State College. He was also prominent in the United Confederate Veterans, serving as commander-in-chief from 1904 until his death at Vicksburg, Miss., in 1908.
Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph. Full seated view wearing Confederate frock coat with rank of major general. Back mark: Tucker & Perkins, Augusta, Ga. Extremely rare image, this being the only time I have ever had this view before! |