Junius Brutus Stearns

[2] JB Stearns served in the Civil War as well, in New York's 12th Regiment.

[5] His painting The Millennium was submitted as credentials for his admission as a member of the National Academy of Design.

[6] He died September 17, 1885, in Brooklyn, New York, in a horse-and-carriage accident after returning from a night at the theatre.

[11] Not as much is known about this series or the intentions of the artist in so portraying blacks on the eve of the Civil War, although there was supposition by Mack, et al.[12] Stearns' painting, Hannah Duston Killing the Indians (1847)[13] depicts the killing by Hannah Duston of Indians who had captured her and murdered her newborn daughter in 1697.

[14] In the painting Stearns, for reasons that remain unclear, depicts Samuel Lennardson (Duston's fellow captive) as a woman.