Matthew Brady

Matthew Brady was one of the primary photographers active during the American Civil War.

 71st New York Infantry at Camp Douglas, 1861

  

 Abner Doubleday

[a successful Civil War general, Doubleday has been 

mistakenly credited with having invented baseball]

 

 Alpheus S. Williams

[another Union general in the Civil War]

  

 Ambrose Burnside

[a Union general with mixed success; his distinctive facial hair gave birth to the term "sideburns"]

  

Portrait of Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, 1860–65