1-624-896 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Edwin McMasters Stanton, American lawyer, politician, 1862-1867. Stanton (1814-1869) was the United States Attorney General in 1860-1861 and Secretary of War through most of the American Civil War and Reconstruction era. 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).