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Nathaniel Prentiss Banks

Nathaniel Prentiss Banks

Joseph Edward Baker
Print
1861
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
General Grant at San Jose

General Grant at San Jose

Andrew Putnam Hill
Painting
1881
Owner: de Young Museum

Carl Schurz

Karl Theodore Francis Bitter
Sculpture
1906
Owner: Museum of the City of New York

Robert Patterson

Joseph Alexis Bailly
Sculpture
1866
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Carl Schurz

Victor David Brenner
Medal
1907
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
John Cabell Breckinridge

John Cabell Breckinridge

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1861
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Ambrose Everett Burnside

Ambrose Everett Burnside

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze
Painting
1863
Owner: State of Rhode Island
William McKinley

William McKinley

H. J. Brand
Sculpture
1903
Nathaniel P. Banks

Nathaniel P. Banks

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

Robert E. Lee

Paul Howard Manship
Sculpture
1936
Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum
William McKinley

William McKinley

Henry R. Rittenberg
Painting
1944
Owner: New-York Historical Society
Robert Edward Lee

Robert Edward Lee

Ernest Ludwig Ipsen
Painting
1931
Owner: U.S. Military Academy
Nathaniel P. Banks

Nathaniel P. Banks

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

Rush C. Hawkins

Mathew Brady Studio
Photographic Negative
1861
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve Collection
Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant

Currier & Ives Lithography Company
Print
c. 1868
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Charles Sydney Hopkinson
Painting
1932
Owner: Supreme Court of the United States
Carl Schurz

Carl Schurz

Daniel Huntington
Painting
1899
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Robert Edward Lee

Leo Lentelli
Sculpture
Owner: Alabama Department of Archives and History

Lincoln, Grant and Sumner

Unidentified Artist
Painting
19th-early 20th century
Owner: Chicago History Museum

Robert Edward Lee

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1860-1920
Owner: Maryland Historical Society
Nathan Bedford Forrest

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1855
Owner: Louisiana Historical Association
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
1935
Owner: University of Pennsylvania
Nathaniel P. Banks

Nathaniel P. Banks

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

Robert Edward Lee

Morgan
Painting
c. 1870
Owner: Chicago History Museum

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