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Benjamin Franklin Butler

Benjamin Franklin Butler

Print
c. 1861
National Portrait Gallery
Dominique C. Fabronius
Bombastes Captures Fort Fisher By Means of a Patent Volcano

Bombastes Captures Fort Fisher By Means of a Patent Volcano

Print
1868
National Portrait Gallery
Adalbert John Volck
Benjamin Franklin Butler

Benjamin Franklin Butler

Sculpture
1863
National Portrait Gallery
Edward Augustus Brackett
Gordon J. Humphrey

Gordon J. Humphrey

Drawing
1984
National Portrait Gallery
David Levine
Butler's Victims of Fort St. Philip

Butler's Victims of Fort St. Philip

Print
1864
National Portrait Gallery
Adalbert John Volck
Ye Conquest of Ye Pump

Ye Conquest of Ye Pump

Print
c. 1862
National Portrait Gallery
Adalbert John Volck
Bombastes, Conqueror of New Orleans

Bombastes, Conqueror of New Orleans

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1868
National Portrait Gallery
Adalbert John Volck
Bombastes is Ubiquitus

Bombastes is Ubiquitus

Print
1868
National Portrait Gallery
Adalbert John Volck
Benjamin Franklin Butler

Benjamin Franklin Butler

Photograph
c. 1861
National Portrait Gallery
Charles DeForest Fredricks
Charles Curtis

Charles Curtis

Drawing
1929
National Portrait Gallery
Samuel Johnson Woolf
Conquest of Ye Pump

Conquest of Ye Pump

Print
1868
National Portrait Gallery
Adalbert John Volck
Thomas Ewing

Thomas Ewing

Photograph
date unknown
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Charles Curtis

Charles Curtis

Drawing
c. 1930-33
National Portrait Gallery
Herman Perlman
General Bombastes as Ubiquitous after Battle of Great Bethel

General Bombastes as Ubiquitous after Battle of Great Bethel

Print
c. 1862
National Portrait Gallery
Adalbert John Volck
Jack French Kemp

Jack French Kemp

Photograph
c. 1984
National Portrait Gallery
Michael Arthur Worden Evans

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