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Nathaniel Prentiss Banks

Southworth & Hawes
Photograph
1852
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

John Wilkes Booth (Alleged)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
mid-late 19th century
Owner: Private collection

Lieutenant Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard

Alexander Charles Jaume
Painting
c. 1855-58
Owner: Louisiana State Museum
William B. Franklin

William B. Franklin

Unidentified Artist
Print
c. 1861-62
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Hamlet D. Scrantom

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1855-70
Owner: City of Rochester, City Hall
Officers of Our Army, 1861

Officers of Our Army, 1861

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1861-62
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Pierre G. T. Beauregard

Pierre G. T. Beauregard

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1852/4?
Owner: Private collection
John Singleton Mosby

John Singleton Mosby

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1864
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Nine Confederate generals

Nine Confederate generals

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1861-65 (after earlier photograph)
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the Totten Family

Francis Scott Key

H. M. Snyder
Print
c. 1852-71
Graphics File National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

A Young Art Student (Portrait of Thomas Eakins)

Charles Lewis Fussell
Painting
c. 1860-65
Owner: Philadelphia Museum of Art

Robert E. Lee

George Bagby Matthews
Painting
c. 1890
Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant

Philadelphia Photographic Company
Photograph
c. 1864
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the Donald Gminder Wooden family

Thomas Buchanan Read (Possibly)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850-72
Owner: Private collection
Theodore Winthrop

Theodore Winthrop

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1861-62
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Pierre G. T. Beauregard

Pierre G. T. Beauregard

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1861-65 (after earlier photograph)
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the Totten Family

Gouverneur Kemble Warren

Mathew B. Brady
Photograph
c. 1862
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of George S. Whiteley IV
Grand National Democratic Banner

Grand National Democratic Banner

Nathaniel Currier
Print
1856
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the Kiplinger Family
John Cabell Breckinridge

John Cabell Breckinridge

Henry Kirke Brown
Sculpture
May 1858
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Gift of the Honorable George Tyler) The Corcoran Gallery of Art, one of the country’s first private museums, was established in 1869 to promote art and American genius. In 2014 the Works from the Corcoran Collection were distributed to institutions in Washington, D.C.
William Haines Lytle

William Haines Lytle

Joseph Edward Baker
Print
c. 1864
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift from Ingrid Rose in Memory of Milton Rose

Arrival of the Nez Perce at Walla Walla Treaty May 1855

Gustavus Frederick Sohon
Painting
May 24, 1855
Owner: Washington State Historical Society
John Ellis Wool

John Ellis Wool

Alonzo Chappel
Painting
c. 1858
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
General Nathaniel Lyon

General Nathaniel Lyon

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1861
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Francis James Dallett
George B. Bingham

George B. Bingham

Samuel Marsdon Brookes
Painting
1858
Owner: State Historical Society of Wisconsin

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