“I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” is one of my favorite Christmas carols, but it only works if it includes the two verses relating to the Civil War, as the video does. Otherwise, it’s just another holiday ditty. And it should be sung to the tune “Waltham” (1872), as it is in the video, and not to that insipid melody written by the guy who wrote “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”
Are you another Civil War researcher? I’m in alt over Joshua Chamberlain’s books, and the autobiography of Longstreet.