Setting: The March Home in Concord, Massachusetts
SYNOPSIS OF SCENES
ACT ONE
Scene One: The morning of Christmas Eve, 1863
Scene Two: Christmas Eve
Scene Three: Christmas morning
Scene Four: The following spring, 1864
Scene Five: That autumn
ACT TWO
Scene One: Two and a half years later, spring 1867
Scene Two: That summer
Scene Three: Three months later
Scene Four: The following spring, 1868
Scene Five: That summer
Scene Six: Some time later, autumn 1868