WAIST-UP CDV OF GENERAL GEORGE B. CRITTENDEN

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Lithograph CDV of Confederate General George B. Crittenden in an artist’s conception of a major general’s uniform. He wears a dark double-breasted frockcoat with a patriotic shield flanked by two stars on his collar.

Image has good clarity and contrast. Paper and mount are good and the bottom of the mount has a period ink ID of “MAJ. GEN. G. B. CRITTENDEN C. S. A.”

Reverse has a photographer’s imprint for E. & H. T. ANTHONY… NEW YORK. There is also some collector information at bottom in pencil.

From the collection of the late William A. Turner.

George Bibb Crittenden was born in Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky, March 20, 1821, and was the oldest son of J. J. Crittenden.  He was graduated at West Point in 1832, but resigned from the army the next year.

In 1835 he went to Texas and volunteered in the struggle for independence; was taken prisoner, and held by the Mexicans for nearly a year.  At one time he generously took the place of a comrade who had drawn the fatal black bean when their captors had for some reason determined to adopt summary measures.

After his release he returned to his native State and devoted himself for ten years to the practice of law.  At the beginning of the Mexican War in 1846 he entered the army as captain of mounted rifles, was brevetted major for gallantry at Contreras and Churubusco, and on September 14, 1847, was among the first to enter Mexico City, where he had once suffered such disagreeable captivity.

Continuing in the service, most of his time was spent upon the frontier.  In 1848 he was commissioned major and in 1856 lieutenant- colonel.  In the great sectional quarrel his sympathies were with the South.

Accordingly, he resigned his commission in the United States army and was appointed colonel of infantry in that of the Confederate States, to date March 16, 1861.  On August 15th he was promoted to brigadier-general, and on November 9th to major-general in the provisional army.

During the greater part of June, 1861, he had command of the Trans-Alleghany Department.  When commissioned major-general he was assigned to command of the District of East Tennessee and also placed in charge of military operations in Kentucky.

Gen. George H. Thomas early in January began an advance toward East Tennessee, and on the 17th reached Logan's Cross-roads, ten miles north of the intrenched camp of Gen. Felix K. Zollicoffer.  A few days before this General Crittenden had arrived at Zollicoffer's camp and assumed command.

Hearing of the arrival of Thomas, Crittenden determined to attack that general before all his forces should come up.  With this purpose in view he advanced, and on January 19th made the attack.  But Thomas was ready with more men than Crittenden had.  The result was the disastrous defeat at Mill Springs, or Logan's Crossroads, in which General Zollicoffer was killed.

For the management of this affair General Crittenden was censured and kept under arrest for several months.

General Crittenden resigned after this affair, but showed his patriotic devotion to the South by serving without rank on the staff of Gen. J. S. Williams.  Gen. Basil Duke, in an article on John Morgan in 1864, makes mention of Crittenden in southwest Virginia assisting Morgan in defeating a raiding force led by General Averell.

In the rank as colonel, C. S. A., he was put in temporary command of the Department of Western Virginia and East Tennessee, May 31, 1864.

After the war he returned to Kentucky and lived mostly at Frankfort.  He was State Librarian from 1867 to 1871.  He died at Danville, Kentucky on November 27, 1880. He is buried in Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Kentucky.  [AD] [PH:L]

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