Trivia 6-28-17 Identify

[MaryDee]

Google Images identifies this as William B. Cushing (brother of Medal of Honor winner Alonzo Cushing).
This article, https://ironbrigader.com/2012/03/24/lt-william-b-cushings-attack-jacksonville-n-c-november-1862/ has both this photograph and one of a younger Cushing. However, the gentleman in the question photograph is far too old to be Cushing. who died at age 32!

The wikipedia article "Virginia in the American Civil War" identifies the photo as Rear Admiral Samuel Philips Lee. (Have to page a long way down to "Notable Civil War Leaders (Union) from Virginia." The wikipedia article, "Samuel Philips Lee," confirms this, as does http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/sphlee.htm He was a cousin to Robert E. Lee, and looks a lot like him. Unlike his cousin, Samuel stayed with the Union.

Moral: never believe google without checking!

 

[amweiner]

Rear Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee (1812-1897)
https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/us-people/l/lee-samuel-phillips.html

 

[Jackson'sArm]

Hmm, Naval frock coat, looks dark blue not grey, stars on the shoulder boards mean admiral... TAH-DAH!

It's Samuel Phillips Lee, rear admiral, commanding the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron then the Mississippi River Squadron.

http://users.wowway.com/~jenkins/ironclads/halloffame.htm

 

[GELongstreet]

Question submission credit.

 

[shermans_march]

William B. Cushing

Edit - Welcome to the trivia game, shermans_march. Hope you'll come back and play again.

You will get credit for a correct answer, but please note the edit to post # 33.

Hoosier

 

[JOHN42768]

Rear Admiral Samuel P. Lee
Source: http://civilwarnavy150.blogspot.com/2010/10/

There are a lot of other sites ID'ing him as Warren Cushing , but with all those stripes I'm sticking with Rear Admiral S.P. Lee

 

[mofederal]

Sydney Lee?

Edit - Sorry, mofederal, you got the first initial right, but the man's name was Samuel, not Sydney.

Welcome to the trivia game and to CivilWarTalk, anyway. Hope you'll come back and play again.

Hoosier

 

[Jimklag]

Identify:
View attachment 145190
credit: @GELongstreet

It's funny. I looked at the picture and kept thinking I had seen the guy before. He is very familiar looking. Then I saw the Rear Admiral shoulder boards and the light bulb was lit. I remembered R.E. Lee had a cousin in the US Navy and voila! The Lees do have a strong family resemblance.

 

[chellers]

U.S. Navy officer William B. Cushing

https://ironbrigader.com/2012/03/24/lt-william-b-cushings-attack-jacksonville-n-c-november-1862/

 

[nextcity]

Samuel Phillips Lee.

 

[lelliott19]

Samuel Phillips Lee, Rear Admiral, USN (b.1812; d. 1897)
Third cousin of Robert E Lee. In Sept 1862, he was placed in command of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron with the rank of Acting Rear Admiral. In Oct 1864, he was transferred to command of the Mississippi River Squadron, which he led until the end of the Civil War. After the war, he reverted to his permanent rank of Captain and served in DC. He was promoted to Rear Admiral in 1870 and retired in Feb 1873.

 

[hoosier]

William B. Cushing, USN

 

[ami]

Rear Admiral Samuel P. Lee

Lee (1812-1897) was a Mexico veteran, a cousin of Robert E. Lee and an in-law of the Blair family. He famously declinded to join the CSA, declaring "When I find the word Virginia in my commission I will join the Confederacy." For two years he commanded the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron and then led the Mississippi River Squadron.

Edit - Samuel P. Lee is, undoubtedly, the person in the picture.

However, as stated in the Question Discrepancy Issues thread, when players give alternate answers, I will see if any of them submitted a source that supports that answer. And if they have, I'll give credit for that answer. In this case, the ironbrigader source cited in posts # 21 and 29 does, indeed, identify the picture as being that of William B. Cushing.

As MaryDee pointed out, Cushing died before he ever would have looked as old as Samuel P. Lee did at the time the picture was taken. Evidently the people who put together the ironbrigader website weren't as diligent as they should have been in verifying that the picture actually was a picture of Cushing.

So Cushing is not really a correct answer - but I'm going to give credit for it, anyway.

Hoosier