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"Peace In Union" by Thomas Nast
"Peace In Union" is the famous painting of General Robert E.Lee's [] surrender to General U.S. Grant [] at Appomattox [] on April 9th, 1865 []. And while the painting itself is famous, and a familiar image to students across America, what is less well known is how the painting came about and where it currently resides.

Thomas Nast and U.S.Grant had a personal connection before the painting was ever commissioned [|Grant]. Then in 1894 Herman Kohlsaat, a former Galena resident, [] commissioned Nast to create the 9' x 12' oil depicting the surrender at Appomattox in April of 1865.

It was the 30th Anniversary of Lee's surrender to Grant when the painting was completed. Kohlsaat presented the completed piece as a gift to the citizens of Galena, Illinois []. Originally it hung in Galena's library but in 1938 it moved to its current location in the Daniel Barrows Mansion that houses the Galena & U.S. Grant History Museum []. The painting currently resides in the museum's War Room exhibit.