William Montague Browne was a prominent Confederate politician and American newsman. During the American Civil War, he served as Acting Secretary of State for the Confederacy in 1862 and as a temporar
Howell Cobb was an American and later Confederate political figure. A southern Democrat, Cobb was a five-term member of the United States House of Representatives and the speaker of the House from 184
Lucy May Stanton, Howell Cobb, 1912, Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
Bureau of Engraving and Printing portrait of Cobb as Secretary of the Treasury
President James Buchanan and Cabinet, 1859. Photograph by Mathew Brady