History Proves War Cannot Stop Christmas…Southern Heritage Preservation Group

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, found soldiers on both sides realizing that the war was a common enemy. Union and Confederate armies camped near each other at Murfreesboro, Tenn., where on Christmas Eve 1862, their bands played favorite Northern and Southern tunes. When one band started “Home! Sweet Home!” thousands of homesick soldiers began to sing before being overcome by emotion and the night fell silent. A few days later the armies clashed in one of the bloodiest battles of the war–but even amid the powder smoke soldiers helped one another’s wounded and dead, marking friendly and enemy gravesites.

For more information Please Visit the Southern Heritage Preservation Group page.

About:

An active, working group, dedicated to the defense of Southern Heritage. This group is a forum for members (not only Southerners, but Northerners, black and white) to share ideas, information and participate in the ongoing struggle to preserve our right to recognize the bravery and sacrifices of the Confederate soldier and Southern Citizens during the War Between the States. God Bless You, Yours and the Southron People.

© Southern Heritage Preservation Group. 2010-2011. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Southern Heritage Preservation Group with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.