Image is a bust view of Edmund H. Cummins in the uniform of a Confederate major. Cummins sports a goatee and is posed in a partial left profile. He wears a medium-colored double-breasted rock coat with the single star of a major on his collar. The bottom of the mount is inscribed in period ink “LT. COL. E. H. CUMMINS C.S.A.”

Contrast is a bit light while the clarity is good. Mount and paper have only light surface dirt from age.

Reverse has a photographer’s imprint for ALEXANDER GARDNER… WASHINGTON, D.C.

Image is from the collection of the late William A. Turner.

Edmund H. Cummins was commissioned 1^st lieutenant in Company F, 1^st Virginia Infantry on May 1, 1861. He remained with his Company until February 1862 when he reported to General P. G. T. Beauregard at Columbus, Kentucky and was appointed as captain in the Engineer Corps and appointed Signal Officer.

When Braxton Bragg took command in August of 1862 Cummins was made Chief Signal Officer. Cummins was eventually assigned to the staff of General Dabney H. Maury with whom he served through the rest of the war rising to the rank of major and holding various staff positions such as acting inspector general and acting adjutant general.

Cummins was surrendered and paroled in May of 1865.

After the war he returned to Maryland and in 1879 he took the position as principal of the Bel Air Academy and later as editorial writer for the Harford Democrat. Cummins was also a military advisor for Korea in their struggle with China.

He died at the Garfield Hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1897.  [AD] [PH:L]

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