This piece of artwork painted in 1865, during the American civil war, depicts a rather emotional scene of a Confederate soldier accompanying a Union soldier during his death. The history of the piece, also indicted by part of the title “recognition”, is that upon the death of the opposing Union soldier, the Confederate soldier recognizes that he had killed his own brother. Thus, this deeper story serves to advocate that the Civil War was truly immoral, and no national problem is so important to bring people’s lives against each other. Nonetheless, even though the art was a protest account of a war many years ago, the theme of war being against humanity still resonates with many to speak against disputes happening today.

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