[CIVIL WAR] – [POLITICS]. A group of 18 CDVs of Union and Confederate personalities, incl. Jefferson Davis, Alexander Stephens, Andrew Johnson, & Superintendent of Army Nurses Dorothea Dix.

A group of 18 CDVs, including the following Confederate subjects: Jefferson Davis, CSA President. New York, NY: Brady, Anthony (rich tonality, mount trimmed). – Alexander H. Stephens, CSA Vice President. Uncredited (mount trimmed). – General Gustavus Woodson Smith. New York, NY: Brady, Anthony (trimmed). – General Braxton Bragg (after lithograph/engraving). Publisher's imprint on verso (some spotting, trimmed). – General P.G.T. Beauregard (after lithograph/engraving). Uncredited (trimmed). – General Robert E. Lee (after lithograph/engraving). Uncredited (trimmed). – General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson (after lithograph/engraving). Uncredited (trimmed).

The following Union/Northern subjects are also included: US President Abraham Lincoln (after lithograph/engraving). Uncredited (soiling, trimmed). – Mary Todd Lincoln (after lithograph/engraving). Uncredited (trimmed). – US President Andrew Johnson. New York, NY: J.W. Dodge, 1865 (toning, trimmed). – William H. Seward, US Secretary of State (after lithograph/engraving). Uncredited (trimmed). – Stephen Douglas, politician. Chicago, IL: J. Carbutt (toning, soiling, residue and wear on verso). – Lyman Trumbull, politician and abolitionist. Uncredited (toning, trimmed). – Julia Maria Jayne Trumbull, wife of Lyman Trumbull. Washington, DC: Brady (toning, trimmed). – William Sprague, Governor of Rhode Island, participated in First Battle of Bull Run. Boston, MA: Allen & Horton (toning, trimmed). – James M. Wayne, Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court. Washington, DC: Brady. – Dorothea Dix, Superintendent of Army Nurses, advocate for the mentally ill. Lynn, MA: Bushby & Hart (some fading, toning, residue and wear on mount verso). – CDV, touching portrait of a mother and child. Uncredited (trimmed).

Together, 18 CDVs of Union and Confederate personalities.

Provenance: Acquired from the great grandson of Union General Edward Griffin Beckwith (1818-1881) (consignor relates). Beckwith commanded the defenses of New Orleans from August 1863 - January 1864, after the fall of New Orleans in 1862.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
Property from the Civil War and Militaria Collection of George Sanders of Albuquerque, New Mexico