Sujet
John Cabell Breckinridge, Confederate general, 1862-1867.Artist: J Rogers
Légende
John Cabell Breckinridge, Confederate general, 1862-1867. Before the Civil War Breckinridge (1821-1875) served as the 14th Vice-President of the United States, the youngest holder of that office. He ran, unsuccessfully, for President in the 1860 election. After serving in both the western and eastern theatres in the war, he was appointed Conferate Secretary of War in 1865, a post he held until the conflict ended. Fearing charges of treason he fled into exile, but returned to the US in 1869 after being granted an amnesty. An engraving from volume III of The War with the South : a History of the Late Rebellion, by Robert Tomes, Benjamin G Smith, New York, Virtue & Yorston, 3 Volumes, 1862-1867.
The Print Collector collection
Date
1862
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM19C19_286
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
30,0Mo (1,6Mo) / 24,8cm x 30,3cm / 2933 x 3581 (300dpi)