Lot 114
Lee Robert 1807 - 1870 Classic Confederate General E. Lee cabinet card photo
Cabinet Card of Robert E. Lee in his classic portrait image. 3.75" x 5.5" set on a card to a dimension of 4" x 6.5"
Produced by Kottman portraits, Altoona, Pa. with full photographer description covering the verso. Slightly grubby with a few very faded stains. Signed in plate.
Owing to the larger image size, the cabinet card steadily increased in popularity during the second half of the 1860s and into the 1870s, replacing the carte de visite as the most popular form of portraiture. The cabinet card was large enough to be easily viewed from across the room when typically displayed on a cabinet, which is probably why they became known as such in the vernacular. However, when the renowned Civil War photographer Mathew Brady first started offering them to his clientele towards the end of 1865, he used the trademark "Imperial Carte-de-Visite." Whatever the name, the popular print format joined the photograph album as a fixture in the late 19th-century Victorian parlor.
A wonderful example of this important historical Confederate General during the U.S. Civil War who led southern forces against the Union Army. His battles climaxed with the three-day stand-off, known as the Battle of Gettysburg, which almost destroyed his army, ending Lee's invasion of the North and helping to turn the war around for the Union. This beginning of the end continued when by the summer of 1864 Ulysses S. Grant gained the upper hand, decimating much of Richmond, the Confederate's capital, and Petersburg. By early 1865 the fate of the war was clear, a fact driven home on April 2 when Lee was forced to abandon Richmond. A week later, a reluctant and despondent Lee surrendered to Grant at a private home in Appomattox, Virginia.
Lee has been quoted as having said, "I suppose there is nothing for me to do but go and see General Grant," he told an aide. "And I would rather die a thousand deaths." By the end of the war, Lee was saved from being hanged as a traitor by a forgiving Lincoln and Grant, and returned home to his family in April 1865
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