OUTBREAK OF THE REBELLION

KIMMEL AND FORSTER 1865

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FREEDOM dressed in a slave cap stands on Capitol Hill between JUSTICE menacing sword and president-elect ABRAHAM LINCOLN gesturing to the prosperity of the American West. Meanwhile, JEFFERSON DAVIS stumps below a Palmetto palm tree wound with the proverbial snake, dividing the nation in two, while outgoing president JAMES BUCHANAN sleeps and his Secretary of War robs the Treasury.