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Contraband on Cairo Levee

1963
Sophie Wessel
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: African Americans, camp life, Civil Rights Movement, commemorations, contrabands, emancipation, Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom, escape, freedom, Illinois, paintings, post-war, slavery, soldiers, Union, women

Prisoners Stripped and Searched in the Snow at Camp Douglas

1893
John M. Copley
The Newberry Library

Tags: camp life, Chicago, Confederate, health, Illinois, illustrations, literature, post-war, prison, soldiers, The Military Experience, The Northern Homefront, Union

Camp Douglas

1864
Private Albert E. Myers
Chicago History Museum

Tags: camp life, Chicago, Confederate, flag, home, Illinois, paintings, prison, soldiers, The Northern Homefront, Union

Members of Morgan's Raiders at Camp Douglas

1864
Unknown Artist
Chicago History Museum

Tags: camp life, Chicago, Confederate, escape, Illinois, photographs, portraits, prison, soldiers, The Northern Homefront, Union

News from the War

1862
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: camp life, death, family, genre scenes, health, home, illustrations, mourning, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Northern Homefront

The Surgeon at Work at the Rear During an Engagement

1862
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: battles, camp life, death, genre scenes, health, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

Our Women in the War

1864
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: camp life, charity, genre scenes, health, home, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union, women

What Do I Want, John Henry?

November 1862
Alexander Gardner
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: abolition, African Americans, camp life, contrabands, freedom, photographs, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

Army of the Potomac—Sleeping on Their Arms

1864
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: camp life, genre scenes, illustrations, landscapes, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

Winter-Quarters in Camp—The Inside of a Hut

1863
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: camp life, genre scenes, home, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

Thanksgiving in Camp

1862
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: camp life, genre scenes, home, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

The Songs of the War

1861
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: African Americans, camp life, children, Confederate, contrabands, generals, home, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

Weighing Out Rations

May 7, 1864
Edwin Forbes
Chicago Public Library

Tags: camp life, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

The Commissary's Quarters in Winter Camp

1876
Edwin Forbes
Chicago Public Library

Tags: camp life, home, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

The Chicago Zouaves Cadet Drill Team at Utica

c. 1860
J. Graff
Chicago History Museum

Tags: camp life, Chicago, flag, Illinois, paintings, soldiers, The Northern Homefront, Union

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