New Year's During the Civil War

Name: New Year's During the Civil War
Start: 2025-01-18T10:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-18T11:30:00-05:00
Location: Columbia

Program Type:

Presentation

Age Group:

Teens, Adults, Seniors

Registration for this event will close on January 18, 2025 @ 10:15am.

Event Details

Every New Year's, people go to parties, watch tv specials, and end their evening by watching the ball drop at midnight. Between the years 1861-1865, celebrating New Year's was different from how we celebrate it today. New Year's also meant different things to people of varying backgrounds.

When the bells rang at midnight in 1863, African Americans rang out joyous shouts welcoming the freedom that accompanied the Emancipation Proclamation. Men on the battlefields sang out in a sadder tune as the war raged on, thinking the bloody conflict would never end.

Women and families back home missed their loved ones at war. A new year reminded them of how long their loved ones were away, some not knowing their fates.

Join Columbia Civil War Historian Cindy Beaston as she observes how New Year's celebrations have changed from then to present day.

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