Robert E. Lee|Horatio Seymour|Ulysses S. Grant|Currier & Ives|John Cameron|James Merritt Ives

The Man of Words, The Man of Deeds, Which Do You Think the Country Needs?

1869
Lithograph
21.2 × 36.5 cm (8.3 × 14.4 in)

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