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Recounts Christmas celebrations during the early Civil War, with an emphasis on how the holiday united opposing soldiers before the Battle of Stones River in 1862. Though Congress didn't decree Christmas a national holiday until 1870, it was spreading nationwide as an American tradition by the time the war broke out. In 1861, the first Civil War Christmas saw festivities in both Union and Confederate camps, but the second, after a bloody year of war,...

Describes the conditions of African Americans in the North and the South during and immediately after the Civil War.

The story of a Quaker family and the crisis which surrounds them with the onset of the Civil War.