Divided Christmas
Four Years of Civil War Yuletides
by Patricia B. Mitchell

First-hand accounts of American Christmases during tumultuous 1861 through 1864. Published 2012. 13 recipes, 60 research notes, 37 pages. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Soft cover, saddle-stitched. ISBN-10: 1-929384-16-5. ISBN-13: 978-1-929384-16-7.

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About the Book

Divided Christmas tells how Northern and Southern civilians and soldiers celebrated Christmas during the American Civil War. Letters, individuals' accounts, and newspaper articles of the time reveal what the populace was (and in some cases, was not) eating, and what other activities went toward making the holiday merry.

“Making the best of a bad situation” is the theme that shines throughout this book.

See also our:

• Cooking for the Cause: Confederate Recipes, Documented Quotations, Commemorative Recipes
• Confederate Camp Cooking
• Confederate Home Cooking
• Confederate Receipt Book 1863
• Union Army Camp Cooking
• Northern Ladies' Civil War Recipes
• Yanks, Rebels, Rats, & Rations: Scratching for Food in Civil War Prison Camps
• Civil War Plants & Herbs
• Civil War Celebrations
• Powers of Endurance: Women in Wartime 1861–1865
• Southern Ladies' Civil War and Antebellum Fashions 1855–1865
• Northern Ladies' Civil War Fashions 1861–1865

Copyright © 2012–2013 Patricia B. Mitchell.