Camps
A photo study of images from the collection
of the Library of Congress.

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Brandy Station, Va.
Chief Engineer's camp at Army of the Potomac headquarters
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Brandy Station, Va.
Provost marshal clerks at Army of the Potomac headquarters
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Brandy Station, Va.
Officers in front of winter quarters at Army of the Potomac headquarters
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Brandy Station, Va.
Tent of A. Foulke, Sutler, at headquarters of 1st Brigade, Horse Artillery
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Brandy Station, Va.
Field hospital of the 1st Division, 2d Corps

March 1864
Brandy Station, Va.
Officer's quarters, U.S. Engineers
lc-dig-cwpb-03979 April 1864
Brandy Station, Va.
Camp at Army of the Potomac headquarters; Zouaves in foreground

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April 1864
Brandy Station, Va. Winter quarters of telegraphers and photographers, Army of the Potomac headquarters
lc-dig-cepb-00056 April 1864
Brandy Station, Va. Winter quarters of telegraphers and photographers, Army of the Potomac headquarters

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April 1864
Brandy Station, Va.
General view of 6th New York Artillery encampment
lc-dig-cwpb-03942 March 1864
Rappahannock Station, Va.
General view of 50th New York Engineers' winter encampment
lc-dig-cwpb-03955 March 1864
Rappahannock Station, Va.
Sutler's hut and stockade of 50th New York Engineers

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March 1864
Rappahannock Station, Va.
Quarters of field and staff officers, 50th New York Engineers
lc-dig-cwpb-04068 March 1864
Rappahannock Station, Va.
Officers' quarters, 50th New York Engineers; another view

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May 1864
Jericho Mills, Va.
View of the Mills and the pontoon bridge from the south bank
lc-dig-cwpb-01211 May 1864
North Anna River, Va.
Federal troops occupying line of breastworks on the north bank

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June 1864-April 1865
Fort Burnham, Va.
Encampment and earthworks
lc-dig-cwpb-01951 June 1864-April 1865
Fort Burnham, Va.
(the former Confederate Fort Harrison). Federal soldiers in front of bomb-proof headquarters
lc-dig-cwpb-00382 June 1864
Petersburg, Va.
Captured Confederate encampment
lc-dig-cwpb-03899 August 1864
Petersburg, Va.
Summer quarters
lc-dig-cwpb-01319 1864
Petersburg, Va.
Sutler's bomb-proof "Fruit and Oyster House"
lc-dig-cwpb-00516 1864
Petersburg, Va.
Bomb-proof shelter in Federal lines
lc-dig-cwpb-01564 1864
Wilcox's Landing, Va., vicinity of Charles City Court House.
Field telegraph station
lc-dig-cwpb-02215 1864
Atlanta, Ga.
City Hall; camp of 2d Massachusetts Infantry on the grounds
lc-dig-cwpb-02087 December 16, 1864
Nashville, Tenn.
Federal outer line
lc-dig-cwpb-02854 May 1865
Petersburg, Va.
Interior of Fort Steadman
lc-dig-cwpb-02857 May 1865
Petersburg, Va.
Interior of Fort Steadman; bomb-proof in foreground

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May 1865
Petersburg, Va.
Interior of Fort Sedgwick
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