Reconstruction
John Caldwell Calhoun, 18 Mar 1782 - 31 Mar 1850Daniel Webster, 18 Jan 1782 - 24 Oct 1852Jefferson Davis, 3 Jun 1808 - 6 Dec 1889Francis RatellierHoratio BatemanUlysses Simpson Grant, 27 Apr 1822 - 23 Jul 1885Robert Edward Lee, 19 Jan 1807 - 12 Oct 1870Horace Greeley, 3 Feb 1811 - 29 Nov 1872active c. J. L. Giles
1861
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- Lithograph on paper
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In 1867, in the wake of horrific racial violence in the South, the New York artist John Lawrence Giles engraved this hopeful vision of the peaceful and unified nation that would result from Reconstruction. The designer and publisher, Horatio Bateman, issued an explanatory booklet to help interpret the complex allegory.