1866 National Union Convention
The National Union Convention was held on August 14–16, 1866, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Meeting of the National Union Convention at Philadelphia, August 14, 1866—Sketched by C. H. Wells (Harper's Weekly, September 1, 1866)
Thomas Nast's rendition of news reports about the convention
John Adams Dix was an American politician and military officer who was Secretary of the Treasury, Governor of New York and Union major general during the Civil War. He was notable for arresting the pro-Southern Maryland General Assembly, preventing that divided border state from seceding, and for arranging a system for prisoner exchange via the Dix–Hill Cartel, concluded in partnership with Confederate Major General Daniel Harvey Hill.
John Adams Dix
Dix as a Senator
Share of the Mississippi & Missouri Railroad Company, issued 24. September 1856 and signed by John Adams Dix
Line engraving of Dix from a US Treasury specimen book, c. 1902