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Around Burlington: 1860s Christmases were diminished affairs
Bob Hansen
for The Hawk Eye
America in the 1860s was a divided land with Confederate and Union forces frantically tearing at each other. The faith and zeal that both sides initially carried to the Civil War battlefields was an early casualty, and this sense of loss pervaded both the battlefront and home front as Christmas drew near.
Burlington and its far away troops were destined not to escape the sense of loss as evidenced in the letters and diaries of the time. Many of the letters in those war years came from the front-line troops and contained a sense of longing for holiday family gatherings and the comforts of an Iowa Christmas. ....

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