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Peace at the End of the Civil War

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. 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. (1865)

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