On January 3, 1863, Harper’s Weekly ran the following Thomas Nast image of Santa Claus visiting the Civil War Soldiers What can you see in the picture? There is so much to see in this photo. From the drummer boys playing with the Jack-in-the-box to...
MERRY CHRISTMAS I have blogged about Christmas in the past so I thought that I would continue the tradition of showing more connections of Christmas and the Civil War. This time I am going to focus on a famous sketch of “Merry Old Santa Claus” by Thomas...
