Harper’s Weekly of December 21, 1861 features Winslow Homer’s “A Bivouac Fire on the Potomac”: Homer depicts an encounter between diverse American cultures, centered on the evening’s entertainments of dance, fiddle, and other camp pastimes… FOR BACKGROUND, SEE:
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Tenting on the Old Camp-Ground (Parody)
“We’re drinking tonight in the old bar-room,
Give us a glass to cheer…”
Tenting on the Old Camp Ground (Kittredge, 1863)
“He thought of the many dear boys already gone over to the unseen shore …”
The Hardtacks 