CDV General Leslie Coombs

(1793-1881) Born near Boonesboro, Clark County, Kentucky. During his distinguished career, Coombs was a lawyer, soldier, trustee of Transylvania University, a state legislator, state auditor, president of the Kentucky Central Railroad, and close friend and confidant of President William Henry Harrison, and Statesman Henry Clay. He was also associated with Vice President of the United States, and Confederate General John C. Breckenridge, and the Crittenden family, and the Marshall family of Kentucky.

His father was a Virginian, who served as...  

CDV Presidents of Harvard University

Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Seated around a table, from left to right, are Josiah Quincy (1829-45), Edward Everett (1846-49), Jared Sparks (1849-53), James Walker (1853-60) and Cornelius C. Felton (1860-62). The years in parenthesis are the years that each individual served as the President of Harvard University. 1861 imprint on the front mount, John A. Whipple, [Boston], Massachusetts. Very fine.  

CDV Edward Everett

Gave the keynote speech at dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery in 1863!

(1794-1865) Famous American orator and statesman. He made many famous speeches for the Union cause, the best known being his 2 hour oration preceeding President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Nov. 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery. He also served as U.S. Congressman, Governor of Massachusetts, Minister to Great Britain, President of Harvard University, Secretary of State and U.S. Senator.

Wet plate, albumen carte de...  

CDV John J. Crittenden

U.S. Senator from Kentucky

(1786-1863) Born near Versailles, Ky. Graduated from William and Mary College in 1806, studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Woodford County, Ky. Fought in the War of 1812. Was a member of the Kentucky State House, 1811-17. Served as United States Senator, 1817-19; 1835-41; 1842-48; and 1855-61. Was Governor of Kentucky, 1848-50. Served as United States Attorney General, in the President Millard Fillmore administration, 1850-53. The Crittenden Compromise of 1860, which proposed the...  

CDV Lieutenant Francis E. Brownell

Ellsworth's Avenger

Medal of Honor Recipient

(1840-94) Member of Co. A, 11th New York Infantry. On May 24, 1861 Union troops in Alexandria, Va. took exception to a Confederate flag that flew on the roof of the Marshall House hotel, which was visible to President Lincoln from the White House. Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth, leading a squad of his 11th New York Fire Zouaves, decided to pull the flag down. Having removed it, Ellsworth was shot dead as he started down the stairs from the roof by the hotel's owner James T. Jackson. After a...  

CDV Schuyler Colfax

Civil War Congressman

Speaker of the House

Vice President of the U.S.

(1823-1885) Was a newspaper editor and owner in Indiana. He ran unsuccessfully for a number of political offices as a Whig and then joined the new Republican party. Elected to the U.S. Congress in 1854, he served as Speaker of the House from 1863-69, and was elected Vice President of the United States serving under President Ulysses S. Grant.

Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 3 5/8 card. Standing view holding a book....  

CDV President Andrew Johnson

(1808-75) Congressman, Senator and Governor of Tennessee. He was nominated and elected vice president on the Union Republican ticket in 1864. Upon Abraham Lincoln's assassination in April 1865, he became our 17th president and resolved to follow Lincoln's plans for reconstruction without bitterness or malice. His reconstruction plan clashed drastically with that of the Radical Republicans in congress, and Johnson's term was one humiliation after another, culminating on Feb. 24, 1868 with a resolution of impeachment against him. This failed by one vote to...  

CDV General Edward D. Baker

Killed at the battle of Ball's Bluff, Va. in 1861

(1811-61) He read law and was admitted to the bar at the age of 19. A private during the Black Hawk War, he moved to Springfield, Illinois where he became a close friend of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln later named his second son after Baker. Attaining prominence as a great orator, he soon became involved in politics and became a representative of the Illinois general assembly; defeated Lincoln to become a representative in Congress; served in the Mexican War as colonel of the 4th Illinois...  

CDV John A. Andrew

Civil War Governor of Massachusetts

(1818-1867) After graduating from Bowdoin College, he practiced law and was one of the organizers of the Free-Soil Party, entering politics to further his anti-slavery ideals. He later joined the Republican Party and sat in the legislature before being elected Governor of Massachusetts in 1860. Re-elected in 1862 and 1864, he brought the state militia to a high state of readiness and the 6th Massachusetts Regiment was the first body of troops to reach Washington after President Lincoln's call for...  

CDV General Ulysses S. Grant & Family

(1822-1885) Graduated in the West Point class of 1843. Fought in the Mexican War. Commander-in-Chief of all Union armies 1863-65. He fought at Shiloh, Vicksburg, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor and the Appomattox campaign. Served as 18th President of the United States 1869-77.

Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Portrait of a seated General U.S. Grant with his wife Julia Dent Grant and their four children. Grant family is imprinted on the front of the card mount. No backmark. Excellent condition.
 

CDV General James A. Garfield

Civil War General

Assassinated while serving as 20th President of the United States

(1831-81) Elected to the Ohio Senate as a Republican in 1859. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he helped recruit the 42nd Ohio Infantry, and became their lieutenant colonel and later colonel in December 1861. He won an engagement at Big Sandy Valley in Jan. 1862, and was promoted to brigadier general. He also fought at Shiloh, Corinth, and Chickamauga and earned promotion to major general. Garfield served 9 terms in the House of Representatives and...  

CDV Edward Everett

Gave the keynote speech at dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery in 1863!

(1794-1865) Famous American orator and statesman. He made many famous speeches for the Union cause, the best known being his 2 hour oration preceeding President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Nov. 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery. He also served as U.S. Congressman, Governor of Massachusetts, Minister to Great Britain, President of Harvard University, Secretary of State and U.S. Senator.

Wet plate, albumen carte de...