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CDV, General Frank P. Blair
United States Congressman & Senator from Missouri
He was instrumental in preventing Missouri from joining the Confederacy in 1861
The Blair family were close friends of President Abraham Lincoln
(1821-75) Born in Lexington, Kentucky, he was the son of an advisor to presidents, and the brother of Montgomery Blair, President Abraham Lincoln's first postmaster general. From secession to reconstruction, Francis P. Blair, Jr. made a series of major contributions to the Union cause. No man did more to block Missouri's joining the...
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CDV, General George B. McClellan
General-in-Chief of the U.S. Armies during the Civil War, 1861-62
Democratic Presidential Candidate that was defeated by President Abraham Lincoln in 1864
Governor of New Jersey
(1826-85) Hailed as the "Young Napoleon," McClellan was thought to have of the greatest military minds of his generation. He was born in Philadelphia, the son of a prominent surgeon, Dr. George McClellan, the founder of Jefferson Medical College. One of McClellan's great-grandfathers was General Samuel McClellan of Woodstock, Connecticut, a...
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CDV, General George B. McClellan
General-in-Chief of the U.S. Armies during the Civil War, 1861-62
Democratic Presidential Candidate that was defeated by President Abraham Lincoln in 1864
Governor of New Jersey
1862 war dated image
(1826-85) Hailed as the "Young Napoleon," McClellan was thought to have of the greatest military minds of his generation. He was born in Philadelphia, the son of a prominent surgeon, Dr. George McClellan, the founder of Jefferson Medical College. One of McClellan's great-grandfathers was General Samuel McClellan of...
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CDV, General Joseph Wheeler
Colonel 19th Alabama Infantry
Wounded 3 times, 36 staff officers fell by his side, and 16 horses were shot out from under the gallant General Joe Wheeler during the War Between the States!
United States Congressman from Alabama
This ex-Confederate General fought in the Spanish-American War as a U.S. Army General
(1836-1906) Born at Augusta, Georgia, he graduated in the West Point class of 1859. He resigned his commission in the U.S. Army on April 22, 1861, and in September was appointed colonel of the 19th Alabama...
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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...
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CDV, General Lew Wallace
Colonel of the 11th Indiana Infantry
Member of the military commission that tried the President Lincoln assassination conspirators
He was president of the court martial that tried and condemned Henry Wirz, the Commandant at the notorious Confederate Andersonville Prison in Georgia
Governor of New Mexico
Author of the classic book "Ben Hur"
(1827-1905) Born in Brookville, Indiana, he was celebrated as the author of the classic "Ben Hur" and other literary works. His father was the governor of...
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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,...
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CDV, General Alpheus S. Williams
Heavily engaged at the Battle of Gettysburg
Wounded in the Atlanta Campaign at the Battle of New Hope Church in 1864
United States Congressman from Michigan
(1810-78) Born in Deep River, Connecticut, he graduated from Yale University with a law degree in 1831. He settled in Detroit, Michigan, in 1836, which at the time was a booming frontier town, where he established a law practice. Williams had a variety of careers in Detroit including that of probate judge of Wayne County, president of the Bank of St. Clair, owner and editor...
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CDV, General Grenville M. Dodge
Colonel of the 4th Iowa Infantry
He was severely wounded in the Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas in 1862, and in the Atlanta campaign in 1864
Served as Chief of Intelligence for the army of General U.S. Grant
He fought against the Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians in 1865
United States Congressman from Iowa
(1831-1916) Born in Danvers, Massachusetts, he graduated from Norwich University with a degree in civil engineering in 1851. He settled in the Missouri River city of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and for the next 10...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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