The man on the left with the camera is Mathew Brady, the most famous American photographer of the nineteenth century. Brady deployed twenty photographers and built portable darkrooms on the army's wagon train; the photographs they brought back made the Civil War the first conflict ever extensively documented. In October 1862, Brady opened an exhibition in his New York gallery called "The Dead of Antietam" — the first time Americans had seen, in photographic detail, the actual bodies left on a battlefield. The New York Times wrote that Brady "has done something to bring home to us the terrible reality of war." He bankrupted himself paying for it.

The eight-figure set arranges Lincoln in his signature long black frock coat and stovepipe hat at the center, surrounded by his commanding generals — slouch hats, kepis, gold sashes, swords at the side. A color sergeant with the Stars and Stripes anchors the right. Brady stands at his camera on the left, hat resting on a wooden crate, in the moment before the exposure. The set works as a single integrated group portrait — the kind of staged photograph Brady actually produced of Lincoln visiting the Army of the Potomac in October 1862 after Antietam. Pair it with the matching Confederate command scene Lee and His Generals, or set it as the high-command backdrop to Union Infantry with Color Bearer.

Tradition of London Set 30 (Lincoln and His Generals). 54mm scale (approximately 1/30), white metal, hand-painted in gloss enamel. Eight-piece set: Abraham Lincoln, General U.S. Grant, two Union generals (one in slouch hat, one in kepi), staff officer, cavalry officer, color sergeant with Stars and Stripes, and Mathew Brady with wooden tripod camera, on classic painted bases. Supplied in the Tradition Classic Red Box. Allow 2–3 weeks delivery.