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James Samuel Wadsworth

James Samuel Wadsworth

Charles DeForest Fredricks
Photograph
c. 1862
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mrs. F.B. Wilde

Otho Holland Williams

Michael Laty
Painting
c. 1846
Owner: Maryland Historical Society
Edward Otho Cresap Ord

Edward Otho Cresap Ord

E. & H. T. Anthony & Company
Photograph
c. 1862
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

George Brinton McClellan and wife Ellen Marcy McClellan

Mathew Brady Studio
Photographic Negative
c. 1864
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve Collection

Zachary Taylor

Robert Street
Painting
1851
Owner: Chicago History Museum
Joseph Hooker

Joseph Hooker

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1861-62
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce

Benjamin W. Thayer Lithography Co.
Print
c. 1852
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

George Gordon Meade

Ole Peter Hansen Balling
Painting
c. 1863
Owner: Christie's New York
Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson

Stephen William Shaw
Painting
1855
Owner: Crocker Art Museum
There is the White House Yonder

There is the White House Yonder

Sarony Lithography Company
Print
1856
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson

Thomas Sully
Painting
1858
Owner: Christie's New York
Thomas Francis Meagher

Thomas Francis Meagher

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

Daniel Edgar Sickles

Charles DeForest Fredricks
Photograph
c. 1861
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mrs. F.B. Wilde
Samuel Heintzelman

Samuel Heintzelman

Mathew Brady Studio
Photographic Negative
c. 1861
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve Collection
Thomas Jonathan Jackson

Thomas Jonathan Jackson

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1861
Owner: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center
Billy Bowlegs

Billy Bowlegs

McClees & Vannerson
Photograph
1858 (copy after 1852 original)
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Franklin Pierce

Photograph
c. 1852
Owner: Chicago History Museum
Zachary Taylor

Zachary Taylor

Robert Street
Painting
1850
Owner: Independence National Historical Park

Portrait of Lafayette

David Johnson
Painting
1854
Owner: North Carolina Museum of Art

James B. Gordon

William Garl Browne Jr.
Painting
c. 1864
Owner: North Carolina Museum of History
Montgomery Cunningham Meigs

Montgomery Cunningham Meigs

Mathew Brady Studio
Photograph
c. 1861
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Charles Parham

Charles Parham

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

William Henry Harrison

Southworth & Hawes
Photograph
c. 1850
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

John Kennett Clay and Henry de Boisfeuillet Clay

Unidentified Artist
Painting
after 1843
Owner: Mrs. Roy T. Edwards

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