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Charles F. Spaulding

Charles F. Spaulding

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

Joseph Eggleston Johnston

Edward Virginius Valentine
Sculpture
1877
Owner: Valentine Museum

George C. Gorham

Benoni Irwin
Painting
c. 1875
Owner: UNLOCATED

Medicine Man, Performing his Mysteries over a Dying Man

Rosa Bonheur
Drawing
after 1876
John A. Logan

John A. Logan

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

M. Minturn

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
date unknown
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Speck

Speck

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
date unknown
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Fitzhugh Lee

Fitzhugh Lee

William E. Hyde
Print
c. 1884
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
George Henry Thomas

George Henry Thomas

E. & H. T. Anthony & Company
Photograph
c. 1860
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
John Adams Dix

John Adams Dix

Meade Brothers Studio
Photograph
c. 1861
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Emerson Lyons

Susan in a Toque Trimmed with Two Roses

Mary Stevenson Cassatt
Painting
c. 1881
Owner: Mme. Ader

William Henry Hunt

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1884?
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery

Turner Ashby

Lloyd Freeman
Painting
c. 1899
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture
Charles Marshall

Charles Marshall

John P. Walker
Painting
1899
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture
H.M. Bush

H.M. Bush

E.R. Gard's
Photograph
date unknown
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Thomas Francis Meagher

Thomas Francis Meagher

Mathew B. Brady
Photograph
c. 1861
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mrs. F.B. Wilde

General Custer (FS II379)

Andy Warhol
Print
1986
Owner: Revolver Gallery of Beverly Hills

Clark Churchill

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1870-80
Owner: The Arizona Museum

Francis Preston Blair, Jr.

George Caleb Bingham
Painting
1871
Owner: Missouri Historical Society
John Newland Maffitt

John Newland Maffitt

Unidentified Artist
Print
c. 1865
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

William Henry Hunt

Eliphalet Frazer Andrews
Painting
1882
Owner: Naval Historical Center

Dennis Dozier Ferebee

Lewis Towson Voigt
Painting
c. 1850

Samuel H. Tagart

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1870-80
Owner: Maryland Historical Society

Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1861-85
Owner: Chicago History Museum

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