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December 24, 1862
“Have you seen the beautiful engraving in Harpers Weekly, ‘Christmas Eve’? How pretty it is; but it is not exactly so cheerful. As the soldier stands next to the fire on picket, so I often think of the portrait of my children by the light of the fire in my tent, in a little chimney of earth and brick before which I am alone in my chair!”
-excerpt of a letter from Colonel Phillipe Regis Denis de Keredern de Trobriand to his wife back home