Christmas Cards Civil War Style
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by joan koster
3M ago
In 1843, Sir Henry Cole, who was helping to set up the Public Record Office (later the Post Office) in England. In order to encourage people to muse the Penny Post, he and an artist friend, John Horsley, designed and printed 1000 Christmas cards and sold them. However, the sending of cards at Christmas did ..read more
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Candy Civil War Style
American Civil War Voices
by joan koster
1y ago
Everyone loves candy, and people during the Civil War period were no different. Recipe books of the time feature numerous recipes for sweets of all kinds. Mrs. Cowan’s American Lady’s Cookbook (1847) includes recipes for coconut, lemon, rose, horehound, and rock candy as well as peppermints and molasses twists. Commercial candy was also widely enjoyed ..read more
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The Most Popular Women’s Novel of the Civil War Period
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by joan koster
5y ago
“Good came out of evil, as it often does…” Thus writes Susan Warner at the end of her novel The Wide, Wide World, a work often considered America’s first best seller. It was certainly a literary sensation. Published by Putnam in 1851 Warner’s novel was widely acclaimed. Henry James, for example, compared it to the ..read more
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New Year’s Eve Civil War Style
American Civil War Voices
by joan koster
5y ago
The turn of the year from old to new has long been celebrated in a variety of ways sometimes with frivolity and sometimes with spirituality, and sadly, sometimes on the battlefield. This is true of the Civil War period also. Celebrating with Frivolity According to Alexis McCrossen, writing for We’re History, men and women belonging ..read more
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Who Wore What: A Book Review
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by joan koster
5y ago
` Who Wore What?: Women’s Wear, 1861-1865 by Juanita Leisch My rating: 5 of 5 stars There is plenty of useful information in Who Wore What by Juanita Leisch. However, as she admits, the sample of photographs she worked with, although carefully dated, were not random and were not identified as to location. So her ..read more
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Christmas Preparations Civil War Style
American Civil War Voices
by joan koster
5y ago
In the mid-1800s, the Christmas season was a time for family get-togethers, good cheer, and good will. It is also a time when the different cultural practices brought by immigrants from various backgrounds began to meld together into those we are familiar with today. We can find descriptions of what holiday celebrations were like in ..read more
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Desiccated Vegetables Civil War Style
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by joan koster
5y ago
Today when we want fresh vegetables in the middle of the winter we need go no further than our local grocery. During the Civil War, it wasn’t so easy. In the next series of posts, I will be examining how foods were preserved in the 1860s. Drying Air and heat drying is one of the ..read more
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Sleigh-Riding Civil War Style
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by joan koster
5y ago
Brr. It’s January and the snow is falling at least in some parts of the world. Are you looking out your window right now? Are you lucky enough to see expanses of white snow and to be dreaming of riding with your beau in a one-horse sleigh? How romantic you might be thinking. However, Jennie ..read more
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Christmas Poems and Pictures Civil War Style
American Civil War Voices
by joan koster
5y ago
The 1864 Christmas Poems and Pictures: A Collection of Songs, Carols, and Descriptive Poems relating to the Festival of Christmas is typical of the Christmas books popular during the Civil War period. Published in New York by James J. Gregory it contains old English Christmas carols such as “A Carol for the Wassail Bowl”, religious ..read more
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Elevators Civil War Style
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by joan koster
5y ago
Yes, there were elevators in use during the Civil War. In fact, elevators actually have a very long history. Elevators or hoists to lift supplies to the top floors of buildings or to lower men and equipment into mines using pulleys can be dated back to the third century. These simple platforms were raised by ..read more
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