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Christmas Truce Across War Lines Echoes Past
A 1862 Christmas memory from Private Paxton on the Rappahannock shows Union and Confederate soldiers sharing coffee and tobacco, trading gifts, and singing as they bridge the river. The article recalls no man’s land truces in 1914 and asks if masses want war.
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John R. Paxton
Army of the Potomac
Falmouth
Maryland
Rappahannock
Robert E. Lee
Burnside
Fredericksburg
Paxton
Charles Carleton Coffin
Johnny
Yank
Bethlehem
Christ Child
Frank Moore
North and South
Petersburg
H. Clay Trumbull
Roger A. Pryor
Virginia
No Man's Land
Henry L. Cabuche
No Man’s Land
Army Corps
Cabuche