God Rest Ye Merry, Soldiers
Subtitle: A True Civil War Christmas Story
Publisher: Viking Adult
Published: November 3, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780670034512
Subjects: Manners And Customs; Soldiers; History: American; U.S. History - Civil War And Reconstruction (1860-1877); United States; History; History - Military / War; Social life and customs; Military - United States; Holidays - Christmas; Holidays - Christmas & Advent; United States - Civil War; History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877); Confederate States of America; 19th century; Christmas
First sentence: On Christmas Day 1862, North Carolina soldier Constantine A. Hege wrote his parents, full of the homesickness and weariness that gripped many a soldier that second Christmas of war.