Carte de visite photograph of Lee in uniform. Chest up view wearing double-breasted frock with collar insignia visible. Image is clear with very good contrast. Mount remains in very good condition. Pencil identifications on front and back. Photographer's backmark, E. & H.T. Anthony, New York.

Stephen Dill Lee (September 22, 1833 – May 28, 1908) was a politician who served as the first president of Mississippi State University from 1880 to 1899. Prior to that, he was lieutenant general of the Confederate States Army in the Eastern and Western theaters of the Civil War.

The youngest Lieutenant General of the Confederacy, Stephen Dill Lee was born to Dr. Thomas Lee and Caroline Allison Lee on September 22, 1833, in Charleston, South Carolina. He entered West Point at the age of 17 and graduated in 1854; he served in the U.S. Army in Texas, Florida, Kansas, and the Dakotas.

In 1861, he resigned from the U.S. Army to enter service in the Confederate Army as a Captain and aide-de-camp to General Beauregard. By profession an artillerist, he served in the artillery through all the Virginia campaigns until Sharpsburg, and was meantime promoted through grades to Colonel. On November 6, 1862, he was appointed Brigadier General and was assigned to the command of General Pemberton's artillery at Vicksburg. He was exchanged after the capitulation of the place in July 1863, and was promoted Major General on August 3. He was then placed in command of the cavalry in the Department of Mississippi, Alabama, West Tennessee, and East Louisiana. Promoted to Lieutenant General on June 23, 1864, he assumed command of Hood's old corps of the Army of Tennessee, which he led during the Tennessee campaign and in the closing days, until the surrender of General Joseph F. Johnston in North Carolina. He was severely wounded at Nashville in 1864 and surrendered with Johnston in High Point, N.C., on April 26, 1865.

In February 1865, Lee married Regina Harrison, daughter of James Thomas Harrison and Regina Blewett, of Columbus, Miss. They settled in Mississippi after the war and Lee was active as a planter for several years. In 1878, Lee was elected to the Mississippi Senate. From 1880 to 1899, he served as the first president of the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, now Mississippi State University.

He died in Vicksburg on May 28, 1908, and is buries in Friendship Cemetery in Columbus, Mississippi.  [jet] [ph:L]

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