General Laurence Baker, C.S.A. [Confederate States of America]

E. and H.T. Anthony (photographer, New York), Dr. Richard C. Young (Confederate officers photograph album) and Alabama Department of Archives and History Digital Collections

Photograph containing Nansemond County and/or Suffolk, Virginia items of interest. "(Uniform indicates rank of brigadier general.) Graduated from West Point, 1851. Resigned his U.S. Army commission and was appointed as a lieutenant colonel to the 1st North Carolina Cavalry in 1861. After promoting through the grades, Baker was promoted to brigadier general in July 1863. Major campaigns and battles include Seven Days', Second Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Brandy Station, and Gettysburg. Later assigned to command a military district in North Carolina, where he saw limited action for the rest of the war. After the war, Baker worked as farmer, insurance agent, and railroad agent. He died in Suffolk, Virginia, in April 1907 and is buried there. Sources: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Davis, William C., ed. The Confederate General. Vol. I. National Historical Society, 1991."