"When This Cruel War is Over"
From Ballads of the Civil War 1831-1865
© Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Civil War Valentine Card
1860s

What Civil War soldiers sent home to their sweethearts
This Civil War-era valentine's card combined romantic love and love of country. The card's verse, "Love and Patriotism," reads:

My country's cause to serve,For her to do or die;Thy love my arm to nerve,Thy name my battle cry.

	The valentine was probably the first of all greeting cards.
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