A group of 18 CDVs, including the following Confederate subjects: Jefferson Davis, CSA President. New York, NY: Brady, Anthony (rich tonality, mount trimmed). – Alexander H. Stephens, CSA Vice President. Uncredited (mount trimmed). – General Gustavus Woodson Smith. New York, NY: Brady, Anthony (trimmed). – General Braxton Bragg (after lithograph/engraving). Publisher's imprint on verso (some spotting, trimmed). – General P.G.T. Beauregard (after lithograph/engraving). Uncredited (trimmed). – General Robert E. Lee (after lithograph/engraving). Uncredited (trimmed). – General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson (after lithograph/engraving). Uncredited (trimmed). 

The following Union/Northern subjects are also included: US President Abraham Lincoln (after lithograph/engraving). Uncredited (soiling, trimmed). – Mary Todd Lincoln (after lithograph/engraving). Uncredited (trimmed). – US President Andrew Johnson. New York, NY: J.W. Dodge, 1865 (toning, trimmed). – William H. Seward, US Secretary of State (after lithograph/engraving). Uncredited (trimmed). – Stephen Douglas, politician. Chicago, IL: J. Carbutt (toning, soiling, residue and wear on verso). – Lyman Trumbull, politician and abolitionist. Uncredited (toning, trimmed). – Julia Maria Jayne Trumbull, wife of Lyman Trumbull. Washington, DC: Brady (toning, trimmed). – William Sprague, Governor of Rhode Island, participated in First Battle of Bull Run. Boston, MA: Allen & Horton (toning, trimmed). – James M. Wayne, Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court. Washington, DC: Brady. – Dorothea Dix, Superintendent of Army Nurses, advocate for the mentally ill. Lynn, MA: Bushby & Hart (some fading, toning, residue and wear on mount verso). – CDV, touching portrait of a mother and child. Uncredited (trimmed). 

Together, 18 CDVs of Union and Confederate personalities.

Provenance: Acquired from the great grandson of Union General Edward Griffin Beckwith (1818-1881) (consignor relates). Beckwith commanded the defenses of New Orleans from August 1863 - January 1864, after the fall of New Orleans in 1862.