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Santa Claus distributes gifts to Union troops in Nast's first Santa Claus cartoon, (1863) The process of Christmas becoming a national holiday in the U.S. began when Representative Burton Chauncey Cook of Illinois introduced a bill in the U.S. Congress after the U.S. Civil War (1861–1865). It passed in both houses of Congress, and President ...
Taking a Christmas vacation with the family might be at the top of your list for Santa this year. But if you aim to get away for Christmas with the kids, "yule" want to get a head start on planning.
A few days before Christmas 1864, a local lad made good, Lancaster’s own William Tecumseh Sherman, sent a telegram to his commander-in-chief Abraham Lincoln saying to him: “I beg to present ...
For Christmas that year I asked for proper graph paper, which would be better to draw tidy castle battlements. Macaulay later published “Pyramid” in 1975 and “Castle” in 1978, both books ...
"Prints depicting the Civil War battles by Kurz and Allison are among the most sought after collectibles of Civil War enthusiasts." according to the Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College. [16] In spite of their lack of historical accuracy, Kurz and Allison prints (or details from them) are still used as book covers and iconic images of the ...
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Antonia Ford was born at Fairfax Court House, Virginia.She was a daughter of a prominent local merchant and ardent secessionist named Edward R. Ford. Before going to the Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute in Buckingham, Virginia, she attended nearby Coombe Cottage, a private finishing school for girls.