New this year will be Christmas bags made of tissue paper and during the Civil War era would have been filled with sugarplums (Visions of) These will be filled with candy and toys. (What is a sugar plum anyway?)
It is similar to a pinata and children will try to hit them with a stick to break them open so the goodies will spill out. It is expected the kids will have a great time doing this (and perhaps a short video on AFV).
Just three months later the next year, the Battle of Bentonville was fought around the Harper House March 19-21, 1865. It was the last full-scale action in the Civil War where the Confederate Army was able to mount a tactical offensive. It was the largest battle fought in North Carolina and the only significant attempt to stop the army of William T. Sherman during his March Through the Carolinas.
Union forces occupied the Harper House the first day of the battle and it served as a field hospital for Sherman's XIC Corps.
Wish i Could Be There. --Old Secesh
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