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Tag Archives: Christmas
25 December 1864: “This is the saddest Christmas that I have ever spent”
Item Description: Entry dated 25 December 1864, Christmas Day, from the journal of Fanny Cohen Taylor, describing Northern occupation of Savannah, Georgia. Item Citation: Folder 46, Volume 7, Phillips and Myers Family Papers, #00596, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, Civil War, Fanny Cohen Taylor, Phillips and Myers Family Papers, Savannah, yankees
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31 December 1863: “I had an eggnog Christmas Eve night and a splendid dinner Christmas day.”
Item description: Letter, 31 December 1863, from James A. Graham to his mother. Item Citation: From the James A. Graham Papers #00283, Southern Historical Collection,The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Item transcription: Camp 27th No. Ca. Inf’y near Orange … Continue reading
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Tagged 27th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Christmas, eggnog, food, holidays, home, James A. Graham, New Year's Day
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29 December 1863: “I cannot tell you how disappointed I was, that you were not with us at Christmas, I thought it might be the last Christmas we might ever spend in the old homestead…”
Item description: Letter, dated 29 December 1863, from Eliza Jane Lord DeRosset to her daughter Katherine Douglas DeRosset Meares (1830-1914). [image] Item citation: From the DeRosset Family Papers #214, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Item … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, DeRosset family, Eliza Jane Lord DeRosset, family, holidays, Kate DeRosset Meares
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25 December 1863: “the Boys have good time to day as it is Christmas I can not enjoy it myself…”
Item description: Letter, dated 25 December 1863, from Dexter S. Cowles to his “Dear Brother,” describing fighting conditions and weather near Vicksburg, Miss. He also discusses his difficulty communicating with family members, and notes the presence of African American regiments … Continue reading
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Tagged 95th Infantry, African American regiments, African American soldiers, Charleston (S.C.), Christmas, Civil War medicine, holidays, photography, surgeons, Vicksburg
Comments Off on 25 December 1863: “the Boys have good time to day as it is Christmas I can not enjoy it myself…”
17 November 1863: “I hope we that we will not have any more fighting to do this winter; for I am not so fond of fighting as anybody might suppose.”
Item Description: Letter, dated 17 November 1863 from James Augustus Graham to his mother. In it, Graham describes a picket shift, an encounter with Yankees, rumors about the progress of the war, and asks for food items from his mother. Item … Continue reading
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Tagged brandy, Christmas, Gen. Richard Stoddert Ewell, James A. Graham, picket duty
Comments Off on 17 November 1863: “I hope we that we will not have any more fighting to do this winter; for I am not so fond of fighting as anybody might suppose.”
28 December 1862: “It is said that on Friday last eleven men were shot in and around this place for desertion.”
Item description: Letter, 28 December 1862, from Thomas W. Patton, lieutenant in Company C of the 60th Regiment North Carolina Troops, to his aunt, Charlotte Kerr, Asheville, N.C. Item citation: From the James W. Patton Papers #1739, Southern Historical Collection, … Continue reading
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Tagged 60th Regiment North Carolina Troops, Charlotte Kerr, Christmas, deserters, North Carolina, Patton family, Thomas W. Patton
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25 December 1862: “The boys are in excellent spirits however not much doing in the eggnog line…”
Item description: Letter, dated 25 December 1862, from Isaac Adams Howard of Gonzalez, Tex., to his father, Dr. William Henry Howard. In this letter, Howard, of the 5th Texas Regiment, Company B, gave a graphic description of the Fredericksburg battlefield … Continue reading
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Tagged 5th Texas Regiment, Battle of Fredericksburg, casualties, Christmas, Fredericksburg, Isaac Adams Howard
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24 December 1862: “This is Christmas eve! Oh what a different mode of spending it this is from what I have been in the habbit of doing!”
Item description: Letter, 24 December 1862, from Union soldier Stephen Tippet Andrews to his beloved, Margaret (Maggie) Little. Stephen Tippet Andrews enlisted in the 85th New York Infantry Regiment on 26 August 1861. He helped organize Company F, and was mustered … Continue reading
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Tagged 85th New York Infantry Regiment, Christmas, holidays, Margaret Little Andrews, New Bern, New York, North Carolina, Stephen Tippet Andrews
Comments Off on 24 December 1862: “This is Christmas eve! Oh what a different mode of spending it this is from what I have been in the habbit of doing!”
25 December 1861: “Today Being Christmas the Col has excused us from drill and we are trying to pass this hollyday as best we can.”
Item description: Letter, 25 December 1861, from Emmett Cole, a Union soldier in Company F, 8th Michigan Infantry Regiment, encamped at Port Royal Island, S.C., to his sister Celestia. Cole commented on Christmas in the context of war, the Charleston fire, … Continue reading
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Tagged 8th Michigan Infantry Regiment, Charleston, Christmas, food, health, Port Royal, Union occupation, Union soldiers
Comments Off on 25 December 1861: “Today Being Christmas the Col has excused us from drill and we are trying to pass this hollyday as best we can.”