BUST VIEW OF CONFEDERATE GENERAL GEORGE H. STEUART

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Image is a very nice wartime bust view of General Steuart in Confederate uniform with his rank insignia clearly visible on the collar of his double-breasted frockcoat.

Contrast and clarity are excellent. Mount and paper have minor surface dirt from age. Bottom center of mount has a pencil ID of “MARYLAND STEUART.”

Reverse has a photographer’s imprint for E. & H. T. ANTHONY… NEW YORK. There is also a modern ID in pencil.

George Hume Steuart was born at Baltimore, August 24, 1838, and was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1848, with a lieutenancy in the Second Dragoons.

He served on frontier duty in the United States army; on the march through Texas to Austin in 1848-49, and remained on duty at various garrisons in Texas until 1855, when he was promoted first-lieutenant First Cavalry, March 3rd, and captain December 20th.  Subsequently he was engaged in garrison duty in Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado, in the Cheyenne expedition of 1856, the Utah expedition of 1848, and the Comanche expedition of 1860.

Immediately after April 19, 1861, he resigned his commission, and going to Richmond, was commissioned captain of cavalry in the regular army of the Confederate States.  Upon the formation of the First Maryland infantry, he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of that command, and by special good conduct won the commendation of Gen. J. E. Johnston in orders.

He was with the regiment under Colonel Elzey during its distinguished service at the first battle of Manassas, and at the promotion of Elzey, Steuart was commissioned colonel.  In March, 1862, he was promoted brigadier-general, and given command of a brigade in Ewell's division, consisting of the Forty-fourth, Fifty-second and Fifty-eighth Virginia regiments, to which the First Maryland was added, which he led during Jackson's campaign in the valley, receiving a severe wound at Cross Keys, which disabled him for some time.

In the Pennsylvania campaign he commanded a brigade consisting of the Second Maryland, the First and Third North Carolina, and the Tenth, Twenty-third and Thirty-seventh Virginia regiments, in Johnson's division of Ewell's corps, and was distinguished in the assault on Culp's Hill.

In the first of the fighting at the Wilderness in 1864, he is found pushing in with his brigade after the repulse of Jones to meet the Federal attack, and continuing in the struggle until the 12th of May, fatal to his division, which held the salient at Spotsylvania, known as the bloody angle, and was overwhelmed on that date by the early morning attack of Hancock.

General Steuart was among the prisoners taken by the Federals, and was one of those sent to Hilton Head to be placed under fire of the Confederate batteries.  Being exchanged he returned to the army on the Petersburg and Richmond lines and was assigned to command the First brigade of Pickett's division, consisting of the Ninth, Fourteenth, Thirty-eighth, Fifty-third and Fifty-seventh Virginia regiments.  With this brigade he fought at the center of Pickett's line at Five Forks, on the day preceding the evacuation of Richmond.

After the war General Steuart resided upon his farm in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.  He was a member of the Army and Navy society, and served as commander-in- chief of the Maryland Division of the United Confederate Veterans.

General Steuart died in South River, Maryland on November 22, 1903 and is buried in Baltimore’s Green Mount Cemetery. [ad][ph:L]

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