ONCE A CIVIL WAR

The U.S. Civil War: Was it one nation divided, remaking itself, or two nations at war? There is no one answer. But every day was a day of great change.

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

December 25, 1863---"The hearth-stones of a continent . . .": Christmas Day, 1863

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DECEMBER 25, 1863:          The third Christmas of the war. In the South, Mary Boykin Chesnut records a festive holiday feast i...
Monday, December 23, 2013

December 24, 1863---Chaplains

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DECEMBER 24, 1863:          On Christmas Eve, 1863, along with a large number of Protestant Chaplains, 40 Roman Catholic Chaplains ...
Sunday, December 22, 2013

December 23, 1863---An informal peace

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DECEMBER 23, 1863:          After a wet Autumn came a cold and snowy Winter. All over the heart of the North American continent, fr...
Saturday, December 21, 2013

December 22, 1863---"What a kind and considerate conqueror is Abraham!"

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DECEMBER 22, 1863:           The Confederate Union of Milledgeville, Georgia, prints an editorial mocking Abraham Lincoln’s “Procla...
Friday, December 20, 2013

December 21, 1863---"God save me from such ignorant trash."

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DECEMBER 21, 1863:           A letter, purportedly written by Union soldier D.G. Griffin, is published in the fire-eating Charlesto...
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