POST-WAR UNMOUNTED SILVER PRINT OF CONFEDERATE GENERAL SAMUEL JONES, FROM A RICHMOND PHOTOGRAPHER, GEORGE S. COOK & SONS

POST-WAR UNMOUNTED SILVER PRINT OF CONFEDERATE GENERAL SAMUEL JONES, FROM A RICHMOND PHOTOGRAPHER, GEORGE S. COOK & SONS

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Samuel Jones, born at his family's plantation "Woodfield" in Powhatan County, Virginia, graduated from West Point in 1841 and began his military career as a second lieutenant in the Second Artillery Regiment. He later served as an assistant professor and tactics instructor at West Point and was on the Judge Advocate's staff in Washington, DC before the Civil War.

After Virginia seceded in 1861, Jones joined the Confederate Army, rising from major to brigadier general and eventually major general in 1862. He held key commands, including the Department of Western Virginia (1862–1864) and later the district of South Carolina, where he took controversial measures during the Union shelling of Charleston. In 1865, he led the Department of Florida and South Georgia, surrendering at Tallahassee as the war ended.

Following the war, Jones was president of the Maryland Agricultural College from 1873 to 1875. He died in Bedford Springs, Virginia.

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.  [cla][ph:cla]

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