Grant Let Us Have Peace

[AndyHall]

• Title: In memory of the Grant monument dedication, April 27th, 1897 / C.J. Taylor.
• Creator(s): Taylor, Charles Jay, 1855-1929, artist
• Date Created/Published: N.Y. : Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1897 April 28.
• Medium: 1 print : chromolithograph.
• Summary: Print shows a large angel of peace standing atop a monument labeled "Grant", on which a Union veteran and a Confederate veteran are placing wreaths labeled "North" and "South".
• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-28800 (digital file from original print)
• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
• Call Number: Illus. in AP101.P7 1897 (Case X) [P&P]
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

[KansasFreestater]

This always moves me:

"His funeral in 1885 was a testament to national reconciliation. Major General Winfield Scott Hancock, accompanied by former Confederate generals John B. Gordon and Fitzhugh Lee, led a parade of 60,000 mourners up Broadway to Riverside Park. The New York Times reported a record one and a half million spectators lined the route as veterans of the Stonewall Brigade marched in somber unison with the Grand Army of the Republic. At Grant's request, the pallbearers included an equal number of Southern and Union generals. Sherman and Sheridan marched alongside Joseph E. Johnston and Simon Bolivar Buckner in a final tribute to their fallen comrade."

Jean Edward Smith, Grant, pp. 18-19