Dec 19, 2018 · Lest any reader question Santa’s allegiance in the Civil War, he wears a jacket patterned with stars and pants colored in stripes. In his hands, he holds a puppet toy with a rope around its...

Dec 22, 2013 · Santa became entwined with in the Confederacy as well during the Civil War. Wartime shortages brought austere Christmases, which required explanations about Santa’s absence.

Dec 25, 2023 · How the bloodshed and turmoil of the Civil War helped make the modern American Christmas. Here's everything you need to know. What was Christmas like in the war? For a country locked in the...

During the Civil War, Christmas was celebrated in the Confederate States of America (the South). However, people doing non-religious celebrations were frowned upon and actually fined in Massachusetts.

Dec 22, 2013 · But outside of the political arena, his drawings of Santa Claus, which began during the Civil War, have had a profound and lasting effect on our modern impression of the “right jolly old elf.” Born in Landau, in the Kingdom of Bavaria, on September 27, 1840, Nast was six-years-old when his mother brought him and his sister to the United ...

Dec 25, 2015 · On the cover was a scene captioned “Santa Claus in Camp” in which Saint Nick brings toys and good cheer to Union soldiers. It seems that Santa, much like Nast himself who was a staunch Republican and abolitionist, had picked a …

Dec 15, 2021 · In a Christmas Eve version, Nast drew a jolly Santa Claus climbing down the chimney to deliver presents, while a woman in the next frame prays for her husband’s safe return. Nast’s depiction of Santa has remained virtually unchanged since he first created it during the Civil War. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

During the years of the American Civil War, artist Thomas Nast was drawing Santa Claus wearing a blue coat with white stars over red & white striped britches. Many of today's American Christmas customs are rooted in the early 19th century.

Dec 18, 2017 · Thomas Nast did not invent the American Christmas, but the German immigrant did develop the iconic image of its central celebratory figure, Santa Claus. Nast’s Civil War era cartoons established the fat jolly elf from the North Pole with a sack filled with presents as the focus of the December 24 th dreams of hundreds of millions of children ...

Dec 24, 2023 · Santa Claus may not be the image that first comes to mind when people think of the Civil War, but the image of Santa Claus as many people picture him today dates back to the Civil War when a man famous for his Civil War depictions first created that image: Thomas Nast.