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 | Final Assault upon Fort Fisher, North Carolina 1872-73 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia, PA | Smith, Xanthus Russell |  View looking toward the coast of North Carolina, with sailing ships barely visible amid clouds of smoke as they fire on Fort Fisher during the Civil War, just before the fall of the fort to the Union forces in 1865. | Unrated |
 | Capture of Fort Fisher 1890 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. | Kurz & Allison Art Publishers | Unrated | |
 | Jefferson Davis 1849 Smithsonian Institution New York, NY | Saunders, George Lethbridge | Jefferson Finis Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, serving as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history, from 1861 to 1865. Davis was born in Kentucky to Samuel and Jane (Cook) Davis. After attending Transylvania University,... | Unrated |
 | General Robert E. Lee 1876 Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. | Elder, John Adams | Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a career military officer who is best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War.
The son of Revolutionary War officer Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee III and a top graduate of the United States Military Academy, Robert E. Lee... | Unrated |
 | Grant from West Point to Appomattox 1885 Library of Congress Washington, D.C. | Thulstrup, Bror Thure de | Grant from West Point to Appomattox, an 1885 engraving presumably intended to commemorate Grant's achievements after his death. A half-length portrait of Ulysses S. Grant is surrounded by nine scenes of his career from West Point graduation in 1843 to Lee's surrender in 1865. Clockwise from lower... | Unrated |
 | Lt. General Ulysses Simpson Grant, Commander In Chief Of The U.s. Forces 1866 Chrysler Museum of Art Norfolk, VA | Mayer, Constant | Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877) following his dominant role in the second half of the Civil War. Under Grant, the Union Army defeated the Confederate military; having effectively ended the war and secession with the surrender of Robert E.... | Unrated |
 | Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard 1861 Historic Charleston Foundation Charleston, SC | Healy, George P.A. | Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (May 28, 1818 – February 20, 1893) was a Louisiana-born American military officer, politician, inventor, writer, civil servant, and the first prominent general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Today he is commonly referred to as P. G. T. Beauregard, but he rarely used his first name... | Unrated |
 | Pierre G. T. Beauregard circa 1840s-1850s Private Collection Unknown, USA | Clague, Richard | Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (May 28, 1818 – February 20, 1893) was a Louisiana-born American military officer, politician, inventor, writer, civil servant, and the first prominent general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. | Unrated |
 | General William Tecumseh Sherman 1888 | Thulstrup, Bror Thure de | William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–65), for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the... | Unrated |
 | General Winfield Scott ca. 1855 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Weir, Robert W. | Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786 – May 29, 1866) was a United States Army general, and unsuccessful presidential candidate of the Whig Party in 1852.
Known as "Old Fuss and Feathers" and the "Grand Old Man of the Army," he served on active duty as a general longer than any other man in American history, and many historians rate him the best... | Unrated |
- American Civil War
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