Historical Christmas Cheer From ECW’s Archives
‘Tis the season! And we’ve collected a few of the Christmas themed blog posts from our archives to celebrate with a little Civil War history.
May your days be merry, bright, and filled with cheerful historical details!
ECW Weekender: JEB Stuart’s Christmas Raid
Christmas at the Confederate White House
Civil War Christmas Poetry – A Soldier’s Perspective
Merry Christmas from Lexington
Coal from Confederate Santa Claus, Christmas 1864
Christmas in Savannah: A Letter From Major Henry Hitchcock
The First Peacetime Christmas – December 25, 1865
Who is the soldier in the photo on
page 33 in Bill O’Reilly’s book on the
Civil War “Legends and lies. The
caption says it is Jefferson Davis!