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A poem by Confederate soldier William Gordon McCabe giving his thoughts on Christmas Night 1862

The story behind the beloved Christmas carol, "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day," written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at the height of the Civil...

Varina Davis, wife of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, wrote this article describing how the Davis family spent the Christmas of 1864 in the...

There was no worse time to be a soldier than the dead of winter. Far from home and freezing cold, the enlisted men of the Union and Confederate armies...

Christmas! At that name, what pleasant visions come thronging to the prisoner’s mind, visions of home and the hearth. —of mince pies, plum-puddings...