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Benjamin Franklin Butler

Benjamin Franklin Butler

Photograph
1864
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew B. Brady
Benjamin Franklin Butler

Benjamin Franklin Butler

Photograph
c. 1864
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew Brady Studio
Joseph Gurney Cannon

Joseph Gurney Cannon

Photograph
1905
National Portrait Gallery
Harris & Ewing Studio Clifford Kennedy Berryman
Henry Warner Slocum

Henry Warner Slocum

Print
c. 1862
National Portrait Gallery
Louis Prang Lithography Company
Grand Banner of the Radical Democracy for 1864

Grand Banner of the Radical Democracy for 1864

Print
1864
National Portrait Gallery
Currier & Ives Lithography Company
John Alexander McClernand

John Alexander McClernand

Photograph
c. 1862
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew Brady Studio
James Garfield

James Garfield

Print
1880
National Portrait Gallery
Currier & Ives Lithography Company
James Gillespie Blaine

James Gillespie Blaine

Print
1884
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J. H. Bufford's Sons Lithography Co.
Falstaff (Bryan) Reviews His Ragged Army

Falstaff (Bryan) Reviews His Ragged Army

Print
1896
National Portrait Gallery
Grant E. Hamilton
James Garfield

James Garfield

Photograph
c. 1880
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Napoleon Sarony
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Print
c. 1865
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C. Bornemann
Schuyler Colfax

Schuyler Colfax

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
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Mathew Brady Studio
Schuyler Colfax

Schuyler Colfax

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew Brady Studio
Andrew Johnson, Salmon P. Chase, William Henry Seward, Edwin M. Stanton and Gideon Welles

Andrew Johnson, Salmon P. Chase, William Henry Seward, Edwin M. Stanton and Gideon Welles

Print
1865-67
National Portrait Gallery
Peter S. Duval Lithograph Company
The Third and Last Committee of Conference of the United States Senate and House of Representatives on the Army Appropriation Bill

The Third and Last Committee of Conference of the United States Senate and House of Representatives on the Army Appropriation Bill

Photograph
c. 1860
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist

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