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Life at the homefront was difficult as women struggled to fill in for missing men and tried to provide for their families during a time of scarcity. Near the battlefields, reporters, photographers and other civilians supported and reported on the troops. 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 Cedar Mountain, Va. Family group before the house in which Gen. Charles S. Winder (C.S.A.) died Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Bull Run, 2nd Battle of, Va., 1862, July-August 1862. Photograph includes women. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1862 August. REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-05022 Appomattox Court House, Va. Civilians in front of the hotel Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1865 April. REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-7189 Bealeton, Va. Group at tent and wagon of the New York Herald Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Meade in Virginia, August-November 1863. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1863 August. REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-7235 Petersburg, Va. Cottage of Col. Nathaniel Michler, U.S. Engineers, at Bryant house Photograph of the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865. Photograph includes women. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1865 REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-7485 Falmouth, Va. Group in front of post office tent at Army of the Potomac headquarters Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Burnside and Hooker, November 1862-April 1863. Photograph includes woman. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1863 April. REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-7396 Washington, D.C. Workmen in front of the Ambulance Shop Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the capital at war. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1865 April. REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-7834 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 Aiken's House, James River, Va. African American men, women, and children seated on a pile of lumber. CREATED/PUBLISHED: photographed between 1861 and 1865, printed later REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-119938 Five generations on Smith's Plantation, Beaufort, South Carolina CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1862, printed later REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-152-A Large group of slaves(?) standing in front of buildings on Smith's Plantation, Beaufort, South Carolina CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1862, printed later REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-67819 Culpeper, Va. "Contrabands" Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Meade in Virginia, August-November 1863. Shows two African American men, escaped slaves, sitting in front of a white army tent, one with cigar and the other with a soup ladle. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1863 November. REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-0221 Aquia Creek Landing, Va. Clerks of the Commissary Depot by railroad car and packing cases Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Burnside and Hooker, November 1862-April 1863. 1863 February. REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-7322 Port Royal Island, S.C. African Americans preparing cotton for the gin on Smith's plantation Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Port Royal, S.C., 1861-1862. Shows seven African Americans sitting in a pile of cotton in front of gin house. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1862. REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-0159 Cold Harbor, Va. Photographer's wagon and tent Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Grant's Wilderness Campaign, May-June 1864. CREATED/PUBLISHED: Between 1860 and 1865 REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-2447 Copyright 2002 WETA. All rights reserved.