CDV, Salmon P. Chase

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury

Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court

Photograph by Mathew Brady

(1808-73) After graduating from Dartmouth, he practiced law in Ohio and became a leader in the Liberty, later Free-Soil, party. Elected to the Senate in 1849, he was chosen Governor of Ohio, representing the new Republican party, in 1855 and served for two terms. He had an extreme anti-slavery viewpoint, which prevented his getting the presidential nomination in 1860. Resigning his Senate seat, he became Abraham Lincoln's...  

CDV, Parson William G. Brownlow

Governor of Tennessee and United States Senator from Tennessee

(1805-77) Born in Wythe County, Virginia, he was a leading Tennessee Unionist during the Civil War. He was originally a Methodist minister, thus earning the lifelong nickname of "Parson." He became editor of the Knoxville Whig in 1849. Although a strong pro-slavery man, he violently opposed secession in 1861, and soon became a leader of Unionist elements in east Tennessee. Confederate authorities suppressed his newspaper and later imprisoned him for several months...  

CDV, General Joseph Warren Keifer

Wounded four times during the Civil War!

Colonel 110th Ohio Infantry

United States Congressman from Ohio

Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

(1836-1932) Born near Springfield, Ohio, he was a lawyer by occupation. He was appointed major of the 3rd Ohio Infantry on April 27, 1861, and served in western Virginia fighting in the battles of Rich Mountain and Cheat Mountain, and was promoted to lieutenant colonel, on February 27, 1862. He was then commissioned colonel of the 110th Ohio Infantry, on September 30, 1862,...  

CDV, Autographed by Senator Benjamin F. Wade of Ohio

United States Civil War Senator

President Pro Tempore during the President Andrew Johnson Impeachment Trial. If Johnson had been removed from office Senator Wade would have become the President of the U.S.A.

Image by Alexander Gardner, Washington, D.C.

(1800-78) Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1828, and commenced practice in Jefferson, Ashtabula County, Ohio. A member of the Whig Party, he served in the Ohio State Senate, 1837-38, 1841-42; and was judge of the third judicial court...  

CDV, Prince Robert Duke of Chartres

Prince Robert Philippe Louis Eugene Ferdinand of Orleans, Duke of Chartres

Fought in the Union Army during the Civil War as a prominent staff officer of General George B. McClellan

(1840-1910) Born in Paris, France, he was the son of Prince Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of d'Orleans, and grandson of King Louis Philippe of France. His brother was Louis Philippe Albert d'Orleans, the Comte de Paris. Nephew of the Prince de Joinville. He fought with notoriety in the Italian Wars, and was decorated by King Victor Emmanuel II for his gallantry...  

CDV, General Nathaniel P. Banks

United States Congressman from Massachusetts

Member of the President Andrew Johnson Impeachment Congress

United States Speaker of the House

Governor of Massachusetts

1861 Mathew B. Brady image

(1816-1894) Born at Waltham, Massachusetts. He was Speaker of the Massachusetts House, presided over the Constitutional Convention of 1853, and the same year was elected to the U.S. Congress, the first of ten terms. Elected Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1856, Banks showed moderation in deciding among factions...  

CDV, President Abraham Lincoln & Family

16th President of the United States

Led the Union to victory during the Civil War

The first American president to be assassinated!

Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln and Abraham Lincoln seated side by side posing with their two living sons at the time, their eldest Captain Robert Todd Lincoln, standing behind them, in uniform, and their youngest son, Thomas "Tad" Lincoln standing at the right looking down at a book that the president is holding....  

CDV, President Rutherford B. Hayes

Union Civil War General

19th President of the United States

Governor of Ohio

United States Congressman from Ohio

(1822-93) Born in Delaware, Ohio, he attended Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with the highest honors in 1842, and addressed the class as its valedictorian. After reading law in Columbus, Ohio, Hayes moved east to attend Harvard Law School in 1843, and graduated and was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1845 where he opened his own law office in Lower Sandusky. He later moved to...  

CDV, General John A. Logan

Wounded at Fort Donelson, Tenn., and in the Atlanta, Ga. campaign!

General Logan was instrumental in founding Memorial Day to honor our war veterans!

United States Senator and Congressman from Illinois

(1826-86) Nicknamed "Black Jack," he served in the Mexican War as a lieutenant of Illinois Volunteers; and was perhaps the Union's premier civilian general during the Civil War. Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1858 and 1860, he attended the Democratic National Convention in Charleston, S.C., as a supporter of Senator...  

Photograph, Jennie Wade of Gettysburg

She was the only civilian killed during the Battle of Gettysburg!

Wet plate photograph, 5 1/2 x 3 7/8, on thick 7 x 5 card mount. Shows a portrait of Jennie Wade at the upper right, the house where she was killed on July 3, 1863, at Gettysburg in the center, and her grave site monument in Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pa., at left. Jennie Wade was 19 years old when she was killed in the kitchen of her sister's house, while baking bread for the Union soldiers. A stray Confederate sharpshooter's bullet pierced through two wooden doors and...  

CDV, General Fitzhugh Lee

Confederate Cavalry Leader, Army of Northern Virginia

General Fitz Lee, was "one of the finest cavalry leaders on the continent." Quote from General J.E.B. Stuart

Severely wounded at the battle of Winchester, Virginia

Governor of Virginia

(1835-1905) Born at Clermont, in Fairfax County, Virginia, he was the nephew of General Robert E. Lee, the son of Captain Sydney S. Lee, [R.E. Lee's brother] C.S.N., and his first cousins were George Washington "Custis" Lee, W.H.F. "Rooney" Lee, and Robert...  

CDV, Edward Everett

United States Congressman and Senator

United States Secretary of State

Governor of Massachusetts

He gave the keynote speech at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery in 1863

(1794-1865) Famous orator and statesman. He made many famous speeches for the Union cause, the best known being his 2 hour oration preceding President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery. During his very distinguished career he served as U.S. Congressman,...