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Let Us Have Peace

Let Us Have Peace

Accession number: 1996.172.1

"Let Us Have Peace" by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris depicts the surrender of Lee to Grant at Appomattox. The high tone of the occasion—the nobility of Lee in defeat and the magnanimity of Grant in victory—began the long process of reconciling Virginians to their former identity as Americans.

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