Authors

Contributor

Frank and Virginia Williams

Description

This black and white illustration is of Admiral Franklin Buchanan, an officer in the United States Navy who became the only full admiral in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War and Commodore Josiah Tattnall, an officer in the United States Navy and then later served in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. The men are depicted seated angled toward each other with Buchanan pointing a finger at Tattnall. Both men are depicted wearing dark suits, vests, and ties. The men's names are captioned beneath the illustration. The illustration is from volume nine, in pages 470-471 of Abraham Lincoln : A History by John G. Nicolay and John Hay.

Publication Date

1890

Rights

Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.

Publisher

New York : The Century Co

Time Period

1890-1899

Subjects

Tattnall, Josiah, 1795 – 1871; Buchanan, Franklin, 1800 – 1874

Object Type

image

Format (original)

illustration

Format (digital)

JPG

Digital ID

FVW_NH_V9_Admiral-Franklin-Buchanan-And-Commodore-Josiah-Tattnall_001

Source

Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana, Nicolay and Hay’s Abraham Lincoln, Volume 9

Repository

The Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana

Digital Publisher

Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version)

Contact Information

For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.msstate.edu.

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