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Robert Edward Lee

Robert Edward Lee

Hattie Elizabeth Burdette
Painting
1938
Owner: Washington & Lee University
William F. Cashman

William F. Cashman

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1860-80
Owner: de Young Museum
The Great Match at Baltimore

The Great Match at Baltimore

Currier & Ives Lithography Company
Print
1860
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Joseph Pulitzer

Joseph Pulitzer

Leopold Horowitz
Painting
1902
Owner: Columbia University, Art Properties
Robert Edward Lee

Robert Edward Lee

Clark Mills
Sculpture
c. 1860-70
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture
Ulysses Simpson Grant

Ulysses Simpson Grant

William Edgar Marshall
Painting
1867?
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery
Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant

John Mooney
Print
1867
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Uncle Sam Making New Arrangements

Uncle Sam Making New Arrangements

Currier & Ives Lithography Company
Print
1860
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant

Mathew Brady Studio
Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve Collection
Ulysses Simpson Grant

Ulysses Simpson Grant

Joseph Alexis Bailly
Sculpture
c. 1865-71
Owner: Union League of Philadelphia

Thomas Carmichael Hindman

Aurelius O. Revenaugh
Painting
1905
Owner: Arkansas History Commission
Lewis Wallace

Lewis Wallace

Ehrgott & Forbriger Lithography Company
Print
c. 1862-64
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Ulysses Simpson Grant

Ulysses Simpson Grant

Runrd Schmidt
Sculpture
c. 1885
Owner: Chicago History Museum
John Singleton Mosby

John Singleton Mosby

David Bendann
Photograph
1864
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Roger Sherman

Thomas Hicks
Painting
c. 1866-86
Owner: Oneida County Historical Society

Ulysses S. Grant

Unidentified Artist
Painting
mid-late 19th century
Owner: New-York Historical Society
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard

Thomas Cantwell Healy
Painting
1861
Owner: Louisiana Historical Society
Statesmen and Generals, Confederacy

Statesmen and Generals, Confederacy

Unidentified Artist
Print
c. 1863
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Ambrose Everett Burnside

Ambrose Everett Burnside

Mathew Brady Studio
Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve Collection

Council Of War

John Rogers
Sculpture
1888
Owner: Chester County Historical Society

General Uylsses Simpson Grant

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze
Painting
Owner: UNLOCATED

Ulysses S. Grant

James Powell
Medal
c. 1865
Owner: New-York Historical Society

Robert Edward Lee

Alexander Doyle
Sculpture
Owner: Christie's New York
Robert Augustus Toombs

Robert Augustus Toombs

McClees & Vannerson
Photograph
c. 1859
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the Smithsonian Institution Libraries; gift of Roger F. Shultis, 1986

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