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TROUBLED WATERS, 1862

Union soldiers gaze south across the Pamunkey River in Virginia from their camp at Cumberland Landing. The northernmost of the 11 Confederate states, Virginia was a key battleground throughout the war, especially when the city of Richmond replaced Montgomery, Alabama, as the Confederate capital.

TENT LIFE, c1861-62

A typical scene from a Union camp – this one at Queen's Farm near Fort Slocum, one of the main defences guarding Washington DC. Women and

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