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This painting by Winslow Homer portrays a Union soldier tending to his field after the Civil War. Although this timeline represents reconstruction, this painting very much represents the transition from the war and back into otherwise normal life. This as well as the recovery of the re-established union in general. Both sides had to recover, and in the South this was seen in reconstruction, and the soldiers themselves returning from the battlefield. -
This is a page of a newspaper from 1890, which shows various images depicting sugar production in the American South. Some 25 years after the end of the Civil War, one might assume based on these images that the South had progressed further in industrializing, while maintaining its roots in cash crop production. To an extent this is true, though this is not especially representative of the entire region. It would take more time for the South to recover entirely, and some may argue it has yet to. -
Another newspaper article, this describes and pictures life on plantations in the days before abolition. This was published in 1894, though, which brings about a sort of reflection to times passed, which can only occur once one has moved on. Looking back on such a huge part of the region's history with a seemingly disconnected curiosity displays a level of removal from previous events and a successful transition to the development of a new American South.