CULTURAL LEGACY
The war influenced our holidays and play.
16. Juneteenth holiday
17. Memorial Day
18. Thomas Nast popularized our image of Santa Claus
19. Some 65,000 books have been written about the war
20. Films such as Gone With the Wind, Glory, Cold Mountain
21. More than 70 National Park Service Civil War Sites (not to mention all the state ones)
22. Centennial toys: Civil War Trading Cards and blue and gray toy soldiers (Oh Yeah!!)
And It Had a Little Bit of an Impact on Me. --Old B-R'er
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