POST-WAR UNMOUNTED GELATIN PRINT OF GENERAL THOMAS TAYLOR MUNFORD, FROM A RICHMOND PHOTOGRAPHER, GEORGE S. COOK & SONS

POST-WAR UNMOUNTED GELATIN PRINT OF GENERAL THOMAS TAYLOR MUNFORD, FROM A RICHMOND PHOTOGRAPHER, GEORGE S. COOK & SONS

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Measures approximately 5.5 inches by just under 3.75 inches wide. Photograph features a waist-up view of Confederate General Thomas Munford. The photographer’s mark is embossed on the bottom of the photograph: “Cook / Richmond, VA.”

The reverse of the image shows a pencil notation: “Munford Thomas T.” as well as “442” and “Cook” denoting the photographer.

Overall, this image is in good condition. There are minor pushes to the corners and one small tear to the right-hand edge.  The back shows surface dirt throughout.

Thomas Taylor Munford was born in Richmond, Virginia, to Colonel George Wythe Munford and Lucy Singleton Taylor. He descended from Lewis Dyve, a participant in the English Civil War. Munford entered the Virginia Military Institute in 1849, graduating in 1852. In 1853, he married Elizabeth Henrietta Tayloe, and before the Civil War, he worked as a cotton planter in Mississippi and a farmer in Bedford County, Virginia.

Munford joined the Confederate States Army on May 8, 1861, as a lieutenant colonel in the 30th Virginia Volunteer Regiment, which fought at the First Battle of Manassas. Promoted to colonel of the reorganized 2nd Virginia Cavalry under J.E.B. Stuart, he served in the 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign and succeeded Turner Ashby as Jackson's cavalry commander. Munford participated in major campaigns and battles, including the Peninsula, Second Manassas, Maryland, Gettysburg, Bristoe, and Overland campaigns. In November 1864, he was appointed to command as a brigadier by Fitzhugh Lee but was never officially confirmed. Munford led Lee’s cavalry division in the war's final months and fought at Five Forks, High Bridge, and Sailor’s Creek. As the Confederacy collapsed, he withdrew his men from Appomattox, intending to join Johnston in North Carolina, but disbanded his force upon hearing of Johnston’s surrender.

Following the war, Munford inherited the Oakland plantation in Perry County, Alabama, and became a cotton planter. He later returned to Virginia, working as a cotton planter, iron manufacturer, and writer. Munford served as Vice President of Lynchburg Iron, Steel & Mining Company and was President of the Virginia Military Institute Board of Visitors from 1884 to 1888.

After his first wife's death in 1863, Munford married her cousin, Emma Tayloe, in 1866.

Munford died on February 27, 1918, at age 86, in Uniontown, Alabama, and was buried in Spring Hill Cemetery, Lynchburg, Virginia.

 

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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