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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Abraham’s Daughter (Winner, 1861)
“One Country and one Flag, I say, whoe’er the war may slaughter…”
Battle Cry of Freedom: “If we’d had your songs…”
Account given by anonymous captured Confederate officer…
The Hardtacks 