POST-WAR UNMOUNTED GELATIN PRINT OF GENERAL WILLIAM PRESTON, FROM A RICHMOND PHOTOGRAPHER, GEORGE S. COOK & SONS

POST-WAR UNMOUNTED GELATIN PRINT OF GENERAL WILLIAM PRESTON, 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 bust view of Confederate General William Preston.

The reverse of the image shows a pencil notation: “Preston in Uniform” as well as “448” and “Cook” denoting the photographer.

Overall, this image is in good condition. There are minor pushes to the corners. The back shows surface dirt throughout.

William Preston was born near Louisville, Kentucky on October 16, 1816. He received a law degree from Harvard in 1838 and practiced law in Louisville.  During the war with Mexico Preston served as Lieutenant Colonel of the 4th Kentucky Infantry. After the war he served in both houses of the state legislature and in 1852 he went to Congress. Failing to secure a third term Preston was appointed minister to Spain by President Buchanan in 1858.

When the Civil War began Preston was instrumental in trying to get his state to join the Confederacy. He took a position as Colonel on the staff of his brother-in-law, General Albert Sydney Johnston. After Johnston’s death at Shiloh, Preston was promoted to Brigadier General on April 14, 1862. He was present at the battles of Corinth, Murfreesboro, and Chickamauga. In 1864 he was appointed minister to the Imperial Mexican government but was never able to reach Mexico. He spent the remainder of the war in the Trans-Mississippi Department.

After the war he fled to Mexico, England and Canada before returning to Kentucky in 1866. He was active in state politics until his death in Lexington, Kentucky on September 21, 1887. He was buried in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville.

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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