GELATIN PRINT OF CONFEDERATE GENERAL JOHN MARSHALL JONES BY RICHMOND PHOTOGRAPHER, GEORGE COOK & SONS

GELATIN PRINT OF CONFEDERATE GENERAL JOHN MARSHALL JONES BY RICHMOND PHOTOGRAPHER, GEORGE COOK & SONS

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This image features a bust view of General J.M. Jones. The photograph measures approximately 4 by 5 ½ inches.

Overall, the condition of this photograph is very good. The image show miniscule wear to the corners. No damage to note.

The reverse of the image shows a pencil ID: “J.M. Jones” and “417.” Very minor surface dirt is present and is very clean overall.

John Marshall Jones was born in Charlottesville, Virginia on July 26, 1820.  He graduated from West Point in 1841 ranking 39th in a class of 52. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 7th Infantry and served on the frontier until 1845 when he returned to West Point as an instructor of infantry tactics. He received a promotion to captain on March 3, 1855. Jones performed garrison duty at various forts across the country for a short period before participating in the Utah War from 1858 until 1860.

With the outbreak of the Civil War, he resigned his commission on May 27, 1861, to enter the Confederate service as a Captain of artillery. He was appointed a Colonel in the Army of Northern Virginia in 1862 and participated in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign. In 1863, he was promoted to Brigadier General and at the Battle of Gettysburg, he suffered a severe wound to his head that put him out of action. He returned to service in the early days of the Overland Campaign of 1864 and was killed in action at the Battle of Wilderness while attempting to rally his wavering men.

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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