(1757 - 1804) Secretary of the Treasury, founder of the Federalist Party, an influential delegate to…
(1753- ) Aid to Washington, colonel, and American ambassador to Portugal and Spain.
(1779-1843) American Romantic painter who studied under Benjamin West and taught Samuel F.B. Morse.…
(1783-1859) American writer who wrote a collection of children's stories that included Rip van Winkle…
(1759-1825) Clergyman that wrote the first biography of President George Washington
(1370-1825) George Washington's first love who was one of the only women to be accused of Treason during…
Woman who masqueraded as a male soldier presenting a letter to General Washington.
(1757-1804) Alexander Hamilton became captain of artillery at the beginning of the Revolution and was…
Thousands of patriotic citizens filled every available space in the big railroad station in Jersey City…
The influx of Northern regiments of troops into Washington during the early days of the war rendered…
At the time this picture was drawn the handsome arsenal of the government of Charleston, South Carolina,…
"General Averill, born in Cameron, Steuben County, N. Y., November 5th, 1832, was graduated at the United…
"Escorting Major Taylor, of New Orleans, the bearer of a flag of truce, blindfolded, to the Confederate…
"The Great Bakery for the United States Army at the Capitol, Washington, D. C.- sketched by our special…
"General George A. Custer, born in New Rumley, Harrison County, Ohio, December 5th, 1839, died in Montana,…
"General Lorenzo Thomas, born in Newcastle, Del., October 26th, 1804, died in Washington, D. C., March…
"The humors of a prison- scene in a station-house cell, Washington, D. C., after the appointment of…
"The New Jersey troops crossing the Chesapeake Bay, in sixteen propellers, on their way to Washington,…
"Burning of the White House- the Federal troops, by command of General McClellan, abandoning their position…
"General Lewis Wallace, born in Brookville, Frankly County, Ind., April 10th, 1827, served in the Mexican…
"General George Sykes, born in Dover, Del., October 9th, 1822, died in Brownsville, Texas, February…
"The military authorities at Washington, D. C., examining passes in 1861. This scene was of frequent…
"Taking away the colors of the Seventy-ninth New York Regiment for insubordination and mutiny, Washington,…
"Encampment of Colonel Ellsworth's New York Fire Zuoaves, on the heights opposite the Navy Yard, Washington,…
"General Butler was born in Deerfield, N. H., November 6th, 1818. At the time of President Lincoln's…
"General Totten, born in New Haven, Conn., August 23rd, 1788, died in Washington, D. C., April 23rd,…
"General Hunter, born in Washington, D. C., July 21st, 1802, died there, February 2nd, 1886, was graduated…
"General Pleasonton, born in Washington, D. C., June 7th, 1824, was graduated at the United States Military…
"General Webb, born in New York city, February 15th, 1835, was graduated from the United States Military…
"General Porter, born at Portsmouth, N. H., June 13th, 1822, was graduated from the United States Military…
"Section of Fort Runyon, Va., guarding the road to Alexandria, occupied by the Twenty-first Regiment,…