ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPH OF CONFEDERATE GENERAL W.H.F. “ROONEY” LEE BY RICHMOND PHOTOGRAPHER, GEORGE COOK & SONS

ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPH OF CONFEDERATE GENERAL W.H.F. “ROONEY” LEE BY RICHMOND PHOTOGRAPHER, GEORGE COOK & SONS

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This image features a bust view of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee. 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 shows one large fold line on the lefthand side, but the image is intact and stable at the fold. There is minor cracking around the edges. There are bends to the corners as well. The bottom of the image appears to have been cut a bit crooked.

The reverse of the image shows some dirt throughout as well as some staining. There is a pencil identification: “W.H.F. Lee / in uniform” and “(Cook).”

William Henry Fitzhugh Lee was the second son of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. W. H. F. also known as “Rooney” Lee. He was born on May 31, 1837. He attended Harvard University and after graduation he joined the Army as a 2nd Lieutenant in 1857. He served in the 6th US Infantry in the Utah War against the Mormons. He resigned in 1859 to work his farm called White House which was on the banks of the Pamunkey River.

At the start of the Civil War Lee served in the cavalry and was eventually promoted to Colonel of the 9th Virginia Cavalry. After the battle of South Mountain, he was promoted to Brigadier General. He saw action at Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Brandy Station where he was wounded. While recuperating he was captured. He remained a POW until February of 1864. Upon his return he was promoted to Major General and commanded a Division in the Cavalry Corps. He surrendered along with his father’s Army at Appomattox.

After the war he returned to farming and politics. In 1875 Rooney was elected to the Virginia Senate, serving until 1878. He was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives in 1887. He served in the House until his death in 1891. He is buried in the Lee Chapel at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, with his parents and siblings.

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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