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The food may have been awful and the housing drafty but regiments often ran their own lending libraries, built churches, kept pets, and bought delicacies from licensed purveyors. A New York chaplain reported that his encampment had a "weekly newspaper, temperance league and a Christian Association." Camp of the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry, February 1864 CREATED/PUBLISHED: Photographed 1864, printed later REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-92389 Morris Island, South Carolina. July or August 1863, Unidentified camp CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1863 REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-108472 Brandy Station, Va. Camp at Army of the Potomac headquarters; Zouaves in foreground Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, winter quarters at Brandy Station, December 1863-April 1864. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1864 April REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-7327 Brandy Station, Va. Chief Engineer's camp, another view Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, winter quarters at Brandy Station, December 1863-April 1864. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1864 February REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-7560 7th N.Y. State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861 Soldier, holding bayoneted rifle, standing full-length in front of tent, African American male seated beside him, and others in tent. CREATED/PUBLISHED: Photographed 1861, printed later REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-126533 Yorktown, Va., vicinity. Group before the photographic tent at Camp Winfield Scott Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1862 May REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-0349 Atlanta, Ga. City Hall; camp of 2d Massachusetts Infantry on the grounds Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman in Atlanta, September-November, 1864. After three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to abandon the munitions center of the Confederacy. Sherman remained there, resting his war-worn men and accumulating supplies, for nearly two and a half months. During the occupation, George N. Barnard, official photographer of the Chief Engineer's Office, made the best documentary record of the war in the West; but much of what he photographed was destroyed in the fire that spread from the military facilities blown up at Sherman's departure on November 15. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1864 REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-2708 Manassas, Va. Confederate winter quarters Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Confederate winter quarters, 1861-1862. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1862 July REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-0648 Officers' winter quarters, Army of Potomac, Brandy Station Two men beside log structure with brick chimney, Brandy Station, Virginia. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1864 March REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-99720 Centreville, Va. Confederate winter quarters Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Confederate winter quarters, 1861-1862. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1862 March REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-0332 Petersburg, Va. Quarters of photographers attached to Engineer Corps in front of Petersburg CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1865 March REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8184-7347 Centreville, Va. Confederate winter quarters, south view Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Confederate winter quarters, 1861-1862. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1862 March REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-7212 Head Quarters of Gen. J.H.H. Ward, February 17, 1864 Headquarters of Gen. John Henry Hobart Ward. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1864, printed later REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-123118 Brandy Station, Va. Col. John R. Coxe, A.C.S., and lady seated at Army of the Potomac headquarters Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, winter quarters at Brandy Station, December 1863-April 1864. Photograph includes woman. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1864 February REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-7126 Servants at quarters of Prince de Joinville in front of Yorktown, May 3, 1862 Four men with wash tub, frying pan, etc. CREATED/PUBLISHED: Photographed 1862, printed later REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7993 Bealeton, Va. Group of military telegraph operators Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Meade in Virginia, August-November 1863. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1863 August REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-7358 The Peninsula, Va. Lt. George A. Custer with dog Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1862 REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-2344 Cumberland Landing, Va. Federal encampment; view from tree Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1862 May REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-1224 Alexandria, Va. Cooks in the kitchen of Soldiers' Rest Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, view of Alexandria, Va. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1865 July REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-7863 City Point, Va. African American army cook at work Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865. CREATED/PUBLISHED: Between 1860 and 1865 REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-2597 Dutch Gap, Va. Bomb-proof quarters of Major Strong Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Army of the James, June 1864-April 1865. Shows a group of African Americans in front of a house; they appear to be servants. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1864 November REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-2551 Copyright 2002 WETA. All rights reserved.