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Joseph Wheeler

Joseph Wheeler

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1898
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Walt Whitman

Eastman Johnson
Drawing
c. 1870-90
Owner: University of Virginia
Isaac Lea

Isaac Lea

Bernard Albrecht Uhle
Painting
c. 1884-85
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the Smithsonian American Art Museum; gift of Marjorie Lea Hudson, 1961

John Singleton Mosby

Louis Mathieu Didier Guillaume
Painting
c. 1870-92
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Daniel Butterfield

Melville Brown Ray
Painting
1899
Owner: Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
William McKinley

William McKinley

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
c. 1902
Owner: City of San Jose

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Jared Bradley Flagg
Painting
c. 1870-99
Owner: Biltmore Estate
George Washington

George Washington

Isaac Broome
Sculpture
1876-92
Owner: New Jersey State Museum
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Pach Brothers Studio
Photograph
c. 1902
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
William McKinley

William McKinley

Cornelia Cassady Davis
Painting
1899
Owner: The Butler Institute of American Art

John R. Sedgwick

Martha Moran Sedgwick Orndorff
Painting
c. 1895
Owner: Valentine Museum
William T. Sherman

William T. Sherman

George Collins Cox
Photograph
c. 1890
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Robert Edward Lee

Robert Edward Lee

Sir Moses Jacob Ezekiel
Sculpture
c. 1886
Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum
James Burton Pond

James Burton Pond

Zaida Ben-Yusuf
Photograph
c. 1898
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Robert Louis Stevenson

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
c. 1870-94
Owner: Harry Ransom Center
Ulysses Simpson Grant

Ulysses Simpson Grant

Johannes Sophus Gelert
Sculpture
c. 1890
Owner: Chicago History Museum

Robert Edward Lee

Sculpture
1890
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture
William McKinley

William McKinley

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
c. 1895-1938
Owner: Chicago History Museum
Ulysses Simpson Grant

Ulysses Simpson Grant

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
c. 1885
Owner: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Jean Desire Ringel d'Illzach
Sculpture
c. 1870-94
Owner: Harvard University Portrait Collection

Russell Alexander Alger

Carlo Romanelli
Sculpture
c. 1895-1907
Owner: Chicago History Museum

George Washington Custis Lee

Benjamin West Clinedinst
Painting
c. 1898-1913
Owner: Washington & Lee University

Samuel Jeremiah Foster

W. W. Churchill
Painting
c. 1875-95
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

Pierre G. T. Beauregard

Louis Mathieu Didier Guillaume
Painting
1855-92
Owner: R. W. Norton Art Gallery

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