1-344-871 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Edward Everett, American Whig Party politician from Massachusetts, 1862-1867. Everett (1794-1865) unsuccessfully ran for Vice-President in the 1860 election. In 1863 he delivered a two hour oration at Gettysburg that was overshadowed by President Lincoln's famous address. 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.