GELATIN PRINT OF CONFEDERATE GENERAL WILLIAM CARTER WICKHAM BY RICHMOND PHOTOGRAPHER, GEORGE COOK & SONS

GELATIN PRINT OF CONFEDERATE GENERAL WILLIAM CARTER WICKHAM BY RICHMOND PHOTOGRAPHER, GEORGE COOK & SONS

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Item Code: 1189-188

This image features a bust view of William Carter Wickham. The photograph measures approximately 4 by 5 ½ inches.

Overall, the condition of this photograph is very good. There are no chips, tears, or breaks to the image itself but the corners show some wear.

The reverse of the image shows some dirt throughout.  There is a pencil identification: “Wickham” and the number “473.”

William(s) Carter Wickham (1820–1888) was a Virginia lawyer, planter, and politician who became a Confederate cavalry officer during the Civil War. Although he initially opposed secession at Virginia’s 1861 convention, he entered Confederate service after the state left the Union, first with the Hanover Dragoons and then with the 4th Virginia Cavalry. He rose from lieutenant colonel to colonel and, in September 1863, to brigadier general in Fitzhugh Lee’s cavalry division. During the war he saw action in many of the Army of Northern Virginia’s major campaigns, including Williamsburg, Second Manassas, the Maryland Campaign, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Yellow Tavern, and the Shenandoah Valley fighting of 1864. He was seriously wounded at Williamsburg in 1862 and again during the 1862 cavalry operations in northern Virginia, but returned to active service and earned a reputation as a capable cavalry commander. Wickham resigned his commission in October 1864 to take the Confederate congressional seat to which he had been elected. After the war, he played a major role in Virginia’s reconstruction-era transportation development, helping lead the Virginia Central Railroad and the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. He died on July 23, 1888, and was buried at Hickory Hill Cemetery in Ashland, Hanover County, Virginia.

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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