Thanksgiving Day in the Army – After Dinner: The Wish-Bone – Drawn by Winslow Homer (Harper's Weekly

Thanksgiving Day in the Army – After Dinner: The Wish-Bone – Drawn by Winslow Homer (Harper's Weekly, Vol. VIII), December 3, 1864, Wood engraving, image: 9 1/4 x 13 7/8 in. (23.5 x 35.2 cm), Prints, Winslow Homer (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1836–1910 Prouts Neck, Maine), Homer’s image of Union soldiers breaking a wishbone in camp after a Thanksgiving meal in 1864 conveys the hope that the Civil War might be drawing to a close. Indeed, within four months the Confederate capital of Richmond would fall and General Robert?E. (Photo by: Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)