This has usually been a very busy day with me, preparing for
Christmas not only for my own tables, but for gifts for my servants. Now how
changed! No confectionery, cakes, or pies can I have. We are all sad; no loud,
jovial laugh from our boys is heard. Christmas Eve, which has ever been gaily
celebrated here, which has witnessed the popping of fire-crackers [the Southern
custom of celebrating Christmas with fireworks] and the hanging up of
stockings, is an occasion now of sadness and gloom. I have nothing even to put
in Sadai's stocking, which hangs so invitingly for Santa Claus. How
disappointed she will be in the morning, though I have explained to her why he
cannot come. Poor children! Why must the innocent suffer with the guilty?
SOURCE: Dolly Lunt Burge, A Woman's Wartime Journal,
p. 43-4
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