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A portrait of Abraham Lincoln on 27 February 1860, taken only a few hours before his famous Cooper Union speech in Manhattan; three months later, he would be nominated as the Republican candidate for president. Photo...

Portrait of Abraham Lincoln as a presidential candidate, June 1860. By Alexander Hesler. Library of Congress

A mural by N.C. Wyeth showing the Battle of Wilson's Creek (also known as the Battle of Oak Hills, 10 August 1861). It was the second major battle of the American Civil War and the first major battle of the Western...

The Law Office & Home of Thaddeus Stevens in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA.

A Mathew Brady photograph of the casket of Thaddeus Stevens, lying in state in the Capitol Rotunda. His casket is guarded by Black soldiers. By Mathew Brady, August 1868. National Archives at College...

A version of an illustration published in Harper's Weekly depecting Thaddeus Stevens speaking at the impeachment trial of Pres. Andrew Johnson. By Theodore Russel Davis, 21 March 1868.

Portrait of Lydia Hamilton Smith, housekeeper and confidant of Thaddeus Stevens. By an unknown photographer, sometime prior to 1884.

Portrait (retouched) of Thaddeus Stevens (1792-1868) by Mathew Brady, circa 1860s. From the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection.

Major General Sterling Price, watercolour painting by an unknown artist, circa 1860 to circa 1869. At the beginning of the American Civil War, Sterling Price was given command of the Missouri State Guard...

Benjamin McCulloch, photograph by an unknown photographer, 1811-1862. McCulloch became a Brigadier General of the Confederate States when Texas seceded from the United States of America in 1861, and during...