Christmas in Wartime

Learn more about how Americans experienced the Christmas holiday during the wars that defined the United States.

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This is a close-up image of a Confederate States of America bill.

Civil War | Primary Source

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.

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