1 Judith W. McGuire, Diary of a Southern Refugee During the War, by a Lady of Virginia (NY: E.J. Hale and 
Son, 1867), 323-324. Reprint by University of Nebraska Press, 1995.
Son, 1867), 323-324. Reprint by University of Nebraska Press, 1995.2 Monroe F. Cockrell, ed., Gunner with Stonewall: Reminiscences of [Col.] William Thomas Poague (1957).
3 “Notes and Queries,” The Ladies’ Repository (April, 1864).
4 Birney, Mrs. “Christmas in Berlin,” 1850.
5 “New York Literary Correspondence,” The Ladies Repository (February, 1859)
6 Duncan, Mary Grey Lundie, America As I Found It (1852).
7 “New York Literary Correspondence,” (February, 1859).
8 The Power of Custom.”
9 Henry, James, Sketches of Moravian Life and Character (1859).
10 Wells, Prof. William, “The Festivities of the Imperial City,” 1852.
11 Ibid.
12 Clark, Luella, The Discontented Fir-Tree (story by Hans Christian Anderson translated in 1862)
13 Willing, Mrs. Jennie F., “Homes,” (1864)
14 Snyder, Phillip V., The Christmas Tree Book (NY: Viking Press, 1976)
15 “The Christmas Tree,” Godey’s Lady’s Book (December, 1860)
16 Penny, Virginia, Employments of Women (1863).
17 “The Christmas Tree”
18 Birney.
19 Clark.
20 “The Christmas Tree”
21 Conrad, Mrs. H.D., The Two Ministers (1859)
