On December the US Civil War raged Union and Confederate troops camped seven hundred yards apart on opposing sides of Tennessee rsquo s Stones River As they warmed themselves around campfires Union soldiers picked up their fiddles and harmonicas and began playing ldquo Yankee Doodle rdquo In reply the Confederate soldiers offered ldquo Dixie rdquo Remarkably both sides joined for a finale playing ldquo Home Sweet Home rdquo in unison Sworn enemies shared music in the dark night glimmers of an unimagined peace The melodic truce was short-lived The next morning they put down their fiddles and picked up their
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