Albumen cdv portraits on original mounts. All but one with the imprint of E. & H. T. Anthony or E. Anthony on the reverse, many with indication that the photograph was from Brady's National Portrait Gallery. 3½x2¼.

Generals, politicians, wives and other leading figures are pictured, including General Winfield Scott, John Charles Fremont, Mrs. [Jessie Benton] Fremont, General Twiggs, Braxton Bragg, Mary Todd Lincoln, Mrs. Jefferson Davis, Jefferson Davis himself (under a shattered frame), General Gilman, political figures such as Fernando Wood, Caleb Cushing, Hannibal Hamlin, Simon Cameron, Clemen Laird Vallandigham, Vice President of the Confederacy Alexander H. Stephens, and others, topped off by Henry Ward Beecher.