Although coronavirus may make this Christmas seem the least festive in living memory, there was another time, 160 years ago, when many American families endured years of separation and deprivation, making the holidays seem that much more poignant ...

Dark shadows of civil unrest were already hovering as 1860 drew to a close.

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