ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPH OF CONFEDERATE GENERAL ALFRED COLQUITT BY RICHMOND PHOTOGRAPHER, GEORGE COOK & SONS

ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPH OF CONFEDERATE GENERAL ALFRED COLQUITT BY RICHMOND PHOTOGRAPHER, GEORGE COOK & SONS

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This image features a bust view of General Alfred Colquitt. The photograph measures approximately 4 by 5 ½ inches.

Overall, the condition of this photograph is good. The image is not on a mount and has become somewhat fragile. There is cracking around the edges and a few minor pinholes in the upper righthand corner. There are bends to the corners as well.

The reverse of the image shows some dirt throughout as well as some staining. There is a pencil identification: “A.H. Colquitt” and “(Cook).”

Alfred Holt Colquitt was born in Walton County, GA, on the 20th of April 1824. After preparatory study in the schools of his State he entered the celebrated college at Princeton, N. J., where he graduated in 1844.

He was admitted to the bar in 1845 but had practiced but a short time when the Mexican War came on, in which he served as a staff major. Upon the return of peace, he resumed the practice of law, and in 1855 was elected to Congress, where he served one term.

In 1859 he was elected to the State senate, and in 1860 he served as an elector on the Breckinridge and Lane presidential ticket. He was an ardent Southerner, and after the presidential election of 1860 he felt that the hour for action had come and earnestly favored the secession of Georgia from the Union.

At the very beginning of the war, he became captain of a company which was assigned to the Sixth regiment infantry, of which he was elected colonel at the organization, and commissioned May 27, 1861. In October 1861, he was in command of a brigade near Yorktown, and he and his command were engaged in the battles around Richmond in the spring and summer of 1862.

After the departure of McClellan's army for the defense of Washington, the division of D. H. Hill, to which Colquitt's brigade belonged, hastened to join Lee, who was preparing to cross the Potomac into Maryland.

On September 1, 1862, Colonel Colquitt was promoted to brigadier general. His command was engaged in the battles of Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and was sent into North Carolina under the orders of Gen. D. H. Hill.

When the Federal forces began the invasion of Florida in 1864, Colquitt's brigade was hurried down to assist in the defense. On the field of Olustee, Colquitt was in actual command, and gained an overwhelming victory, which completely defeated the Federal scheme for the conquest of that State.

When the campaign of 1864 opened in Virginia, Colquitt's brigade was hurried back to Richmond, reaching Petersburg just in time to share in the victorious defense of that city. General Colquitt continued to serve his country faithfully until the close of the war.

After returning to his home, he soon became prominent as a statesman. In 1876 he was chosen governor of Georgia for four years. In 1883 he was elected to the United States Senate, and again in 1888, serving until his death at Washington in 1894.

For thirty-five years Senator Colquitt was a Democratic leader, upholding the principles of his party with courage, eloquence and ability. His public career and his public life were alike stainless. He was in all the walks of life a Christian gentleman of the highest type.

He is buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Georgia.

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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