GELATIN PHOTOGRAPH OF CONFEDERATE BRIGADIER GENERAL HYLAN LYON BY RICHMOND PHOTOGRAPHER, GEORGE COOK & SONS

GELATIN PHOTOGRAPH OF CONFEDERATE BRIGADIER GENERAL HYLAN LYON BY RICHMOND PHOTOGRAPHER, GEORGE COOK & SONS

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This image features a bust view of Brigadier General Hylan Lyon. The photograph measures approximately 4 inches by 5 ½ inches.

Overall, the condition of this photograph is very good. The image is unmounted and remains strong. There is a large fold to the lower right-hand corner and a small fold to the upper right-hand corner, but these do not detract. There are cuts to the corners as well.

The reverse of the image is quite clean with only minor dirt along the edges. There is a pencil identification: “Lyon” and “Cook,” as well as the number “433.”

Hylan Benton Lyon was born in 1822 in Caldwell, Kentucky. In 1856, he graduated from West Point and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of Artillery and was directly sent West to quell insurrections with the Native American population. When the Civil War broke out, Lyon resigned his commission in the regular army and he then organized the 3rd Kentucky infantry. In February 1862, Lyon was elevated to the rank of lieutenant colonel of the 8th Kentucky. On February 16, he and his regiment surrendered to Union troops at Fort Donelson, after which Lyon was held as prisoner until he was exchanged in September 1862. Lyon went on to fight at the Big Black River during the Vicksburg campaign. In November 1863, Lyon was placed under General Joseph Wheeler’s command, leading cavalry reconnaissance missions. By spring 1864, he joined General Nathan Bedford Forrest, and on June 10, confronted Union forces led by General Samuel L. Sturgis at Brices Cross Roads. Four days later, Lyon was made brigadier general, and on September 26, was appointed to lead the Department of Western Kentucky. In December 1864, he carried out a raid into the Cumberland Valley spanning Tennessee and Kentucky, disrupting Union supply routes and burning Union-occupied structures, including seven courthouses in Kentucky. As the Civil War ended, Lyon refused to surrender and escaped to Mexico. He returned to his farm in Eddyville, Kentucky, in 1866. Lyon briefly served as a state representative for Kentucky from 1899-1901 just a few years before his death in 1907.  He is buried in his hometown of Eddyville, Kentucky at River View Cemetery.

The Cook studio was owned by George S. Cook whose two sons, George LaGrange Cook and Heustis Cook, also worked as photographers. The father, George S. Cook, is famously known for taking the first combat images of ironclads firing on Ft. Moultrie in 1863. George S. was born in 1819 in Connecticut and moved south to Louisiana in 1839. From there, he moved several times (always remaining in the South), making money as a merchant and studying photography until he eventually wound up in Richmond in 1880, where he bought Anderson’s photography studio. This is where many of the original glass plate negatives came from to reproduce his photographs. The Cook studio also purchased other collections of negatives as well.   [cla][ph:cla]

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