Flickr - USCapitol - Peace at the End of the Civil War

A Confederate soldier and a Union soldier shake hands, marking the reunion of the country after the devastation of the Civil War in 1865. A cotton plant and a northern pine tree symbolize the South and the North, respectively. This is the first of Allyn Cox's three panels.

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