Richard R. Miller has now painted three Official State Portraits for South Dakota, including Governor Walter Dale Miller and Governor George Speaker Mickelson

Major General Robert E. Lee

“Governor, if I had foreseen the use these people desired to make of their victory, there would have been no surrender at Appomattox, no sir, not by me.  Had I seen these results of subjugation, I would have preferred to die at Appomattox with my brave men, my sword in this right hand.”

General Robert E. Lee, CSA - as told to Texas ex-governor F.W. Stockdale.

Nicknamed “The miniball magnet” because he was wounded so often.  Assigned by General Lee to hold vital ”Bloody Lane” at Antietam, Gordon’s wound count soared.  A miniball passed through his calf.  A second ball hit hm higher in the same leg.  A third went though his left arm, mangling it.  A fourth hit him in the shoulder.  He refused to quit and continued to lead his men.  Finally a fifth hit him in the face, his left cheek, exiting his jaw.  He fell from his horse, full face into his cap.  He would have drowned in his own blood if it had not drained out through another bullet hole.

Major General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne

“If this cause, that is dear to my heart, is doomed to fail, I pray heaven may let me fall with it, while my face is toward the enemy and my arm battlling for that which I know is right.”
– Major General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne before his Fatal wound at the battle of Franklin, Tennessee

Major General Nathan Bedford Forest and Major General Benjamin Franklin Cheatham commisions have been completed.  Find out more through the Giclee Gallery and the Civil War & Historical Gallery.