Nice clean lithograph of Lovell in the double-breasted frockcoat of a Confederate general.

Clarity and contrast are good as is the paper and mount.

Reverse has no photographer’s imprint but does have a pencil ID and some collector information in pencil at bottom.

From the collection of the late William A. Turner.

Mansfield Lovell was born at Washington, D. C., October 20, 1822.  He was the son of Dr. Joseph Lovell, surgeon-general of the United States Army in 1818, and grandson of a member of the Continental Congress.  Receiving an appointment in youth to the United States Military Academy at West Point, he was graduated there in 1842, with the distinction of being ninth in a class which included some future distinguished generals.

He received a lieutenancy in the Fourth Artillery, which joined General Taylor's army in Texas, in 1845.  He was wounded at Monterey in 1846, was appointed aide to General Quitman, went to Vera Cruz and was in the campaign from that place to the City of Mexico, in the assault upon which he was wounded at Belasco gate.  He was brevetted captain for bravery at Chapultepec.

After the Mexican War he commanded a battery of his regiment for two years, served in garrisons in the South and West, and finally in New York, where he resigned September 18, 1854.  At New York he was a member of, and drilled the Old City Guard, and was deputy street commissioner from 1858 until 1861, when he went south.

Tendering his services to the Confederate government, he was commissioned brigadier-general and in October, 1861, was promoted major-general and assigned to the command of Department No. 1, with headquarters at New Orleans.  On account of the inadequacy of his infantry force in the city he was compelled to evacuate when the Federal fleet passed the forts and came up the river.

He retired to Vicksburg, was superseded by General Van Dorn, was second in command at Corinth, and commanded the rear guard in the subsequent retreat.  A court of inquiry relieved him of blame for the surrender of New Orleans, and Gen. J. E. Johnston in 1864 proposed to give him command of a corps, but he was not restored to the field by the government.

After the war he resided in New York City, engaged in civil engineering, until his death in June, 1884. He is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York.  [AD] [ph:L]

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