Christmas in Wartime
Learn more about how Americans experienced the Christmas holiday during the wars that defined the United States.
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Christmas in the Petersburg Trenches
This account appeared in the Anderson Intelligencer in South Carolina in December 1901, reflecting on 1864's Christmas during the Civil War.
1776: "On Christmas Night We Marched"
Lieutenant Joseph Hodgkins helped form and lead the Ipswich Company from Massachusetts. This letter to his wife shares about crossing the Delaware...
1776: "I Hope The Next Christmas Will Prove Happier"
General George Washington wrote to Robert Morris, continuing their correspondence about supplies for the Continental Army. Morris was a signer of the...
1773: Christmas - An Essay
The following essay appeared in the London Magazine and was later reprinted in The Virginia Gazette in Williamsburg in 1773.
