Coincidence or things to come?
New penny depicts the US Capitol dome construction
http://www.usmint.gov/pressroom/inde...release&ID=947
Seen the new 2010 penny depicting the construction of the US Capitol dome?
http://2010lincolncents.com/
What is interesting is the dome was constructed during the most turbulent time in US History: 1855-1866.
The same period in which began with secessional disputes and culminated into the Civil War.
Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1861, beneath the unfinished capitol dome when he took office.
American Civil War
Both the outgoing and incoming US administrations rejected the legality of secession, considering it rebellion.
Hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces attacked a US military installation at Fort Sumter in South Carolina.
Lincoln responded by calling for a volunteer army from each state, leading to declarations of secession by four more Southern slave states.
Both sides raised armies as the Union assumed control of the border states early in the war and established a naval blockade. In September 1862, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation made ending slavery in the South a war goal[1], and dissuaded the British from intervening.[2]
Confederate commander Robert E. Lee won battles in the east, but in 1863 his northward advance was turned back after the Battle of Gettysburg and, in the west, the Union gained control of the Mississippi River at the Battle of Vicksburg, thereby splitting the Confederacy.
Long-term Union advantages in men and material were realized in 1864 when Ulysses S. Grant fought battles of attrition against Lee, while Union general William Sherman captured Atlanta, Georgia, and marched to the sea. Confederate resistance collapsed after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.
The United States Capitol dome is the massive dome situated above the United States Capitol which reaches upwards to 288 feet (88 m) in height. The dome was designed by Thomas U. Walter, the fourth Architect of the Capitol, and constructed between 1855 and 1866 at a cost of $1,047,291.[1]
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