Civil War Portraits—Leaders, Influencers, and the Incidentally Important # 012 Stephen Russell Mallory (1812 – November 9, 1873) was a Democratic senator from Florida from 1851 to the secession of his home state and the outbreak of the American Civil War. For much of that period, he was chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs. [...]

Civil War Portraits—Leaders, Influencers, and the Incidentally Important #011 Captain James Buchanan Eads (May 23, 1820 – March 8, 1887) was a world-renowned American civil engineer and inventor, holding more than 50 patents. In 1861, after the outbreak of the American Civil War, Eads was called to Washington at the prompting of his friend, Attorney [...]

Civil War Portraits—Leaders, Influencers, and the Incidentally Important #011 Robert Anderson (June 14, 1805 – October 26, 1871) was a United States Army officer during the American Civil War. He was the Union commander in the first battle of the American Civil War at Fort Sumter in April 1861 when the Confederates bombarded the fort [...]

Civil War Portraits—Leaders, Influencers, and the Incidentally Important #010 Hinton Rowan Helper (December 27, 1829 – March 9, 1909) was an American Southern critic of slavery during the 1850s. In 1857, he published a book which he dedicated to the “nonslaveholding whites” of the South. The Impending Crisis of the South, written partly in North [...]

Civil War Portraits—Leaders, Influencers, and the Incidentally Important #009 William Henry Trescot (November 10, 1822 – May 4, 1898) was an American diplomat born in Charleston, South Carolina, on the November 10, 1822. He graduated at College of Charleston in 1840, studied law at Harvard University, and was admitted to the bar in 1843. He [...]

Civil War Portraits—Leaders, Influencers, and the Incidentally Important #008 “When all propositions of peace fail, and a war of aggression is proclaimed, there is but one course left for the patriot, and that is to rally under that flag which has waved over the Capitol from the days of Washington, and around the government established [...]

Civil War Portraits—Leaders, Influencers, and the Incidentally Important #007 Robert Augustus Toombs (July 2, 1810 – December 15, 1885) was an American lawyer, planter, and national politician from Georgia who became one of the organizers of the Confederacy and served as its first Secretary of State under President Jefferson Davis. He also served in the [...]

Civil War Portraits—Leaders, Influencers, and the Incidentally Important #006 George Lucas Hartsuff George Lucas Hartsuff (May 28, 1830 – May 16, 1874) was an American soldier, born at Tyre, New York. He graduated at West Point in 1852, graduating 19th out of 43 in his class. He served on the frontier and in Florida, where, [...]

Civil War Portraits—Leaders, Influencers, and the Incidentally Important #005 Virginia Governor John Letcher John Letcher was an American lawyer, journalist, and politician. He served as a Representative in the United States Congress, was the 34th Governor of Virginia during the American Civil War, and later served in the Virginia General Assembly. He was also active [...]

Civil War Portraits—Leaders, Influencers, and the Incidentally Important #004 General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard Title: General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, C.S.A. Caption: Wearing Confederate uniform. Catalog #: NH 51926 Owner: National Archives and Records Administration After this Year: 1861 Before this Year: 1865 Original Medium: BW Photo Naval History and Heritage Command

Civil War Portraits—Leaders, Influencers, and the Incidentally Important #003 Mary Anna Custis Lee (C. 1854)? Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee (October 1, 1808 – November 5, 1873) was a third cousin and the wife of Robert E. Lee, the prominent career military officer who subsequently commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American [...]

Civil War Portraits—Leaders, Influencers, and the Incidentally Important #002 Braxton Bragg Braxton Bragg (March 22, 1817 – September 27, 1876) was a career United States Army officer, and then a general in the Confederate States Army—a principal commander in the Western Theater of the American Civil War and later the military advisor to the Confederate [...]

Civil War Portraits—Leaders, Influencers, and the Incidentally Important #001 Lieutenant Hall, USA, Bearer of Despatches from Major Anderson to Governor Pickens (Norman Jonathan Hall was initially sent with messages to Governor Pickens after the Star of the Wst was fired on.) The Star of the West was fired upon on January 9, 1861. From a [...]