POST-WAR UNMOUNTED SILVER PRINT OF CONFEDERATE GENERAL EPPA HUNTON, FROM RICHMOND PHOTOGRAPHER: GEORGE S. COOK & SONS

POST-WAR UNMOUNTED SILVER PRINT OF CONFEDERATE GENERAL EPPA HUNTON, FROM RICHMOND PHOTOGRAPHER: GEORGE S. COOK & SONS

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Eppa Hunton II (1822–1908) was a US representative, senator from Virginia, and brigadier general in the Confederate army during the Civil War. Born near Warrenton, Virginia, he taught school before becoming a lawyer in 1843 and later served as Commonwealth attorney for Prince William County. Hunton married Lucy Caroline Weir in 1848, and they had two children, including Eppa Hunton III, cofounder of the Richmond law firm Hunton & Williams.

Hunton was a delegate to the Virginia Secession Convention in 1861 and became colonel of the 8th Virginia Infantry, participating in key battles such as Bull Run and Ball’s Bluff. Promoted to brigadier general after Gettysburg, he was wounded in Pickett’s Charge and later captured at Sayler’s Creek. After the war, Hunton returned to law and politics, serving four terms in Congress and briefly as a US senator. He chaired several committees and was involved in the 1876 Electoral Commission. Although implicated in a bribery attempt related to a tariff bill in 1894, Hunton was exonerated. He died in Richmond in 1908.

This photograph is a lesser-known photograph type called a silver print, where silver halide is suspended in a gelatin emulsion. This emulsion coats the base and then a chemical wash is poured over the paper exposing the image. This image was produced from the original negative by the Cook Studio in Richmond sometime after 1880.

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.

This image measures 4 inches by 6 inches and features a waist-up view of Hunton in a double-breasted frock coat. This image is on heavy cardstock.

This photograph is in very good condition with only very minor wear to the corners. No other issues to note. The reverse shows light surface dirt and a pencil ID: “Gen. Eppa Hunton.”  [cla] [ph:cla]

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