This is a beautiful day, the snow having nearly all
disappeared. The boys had a fine time today, this being our first Christmas
experience in the army. There was no roast turkey with cranberry sauce and we
all missed mother’s mince pies, cake and doughnuts. But we bought some pies and
cakes of the citizens here, which with our regular army rations made a good
dinner and something like a square meal. In the evening some of us boys went to
the tavern to get our suppers, costing twenty-five cents apiece, and we had hot
biscuit and honey in the bargain.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 26
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