Southern women ride to a Union commissary for rations in the Virginia winter of early 1864. A Confederate family is forced to flee their home. An upper class Confederate family in Virginia tries to forget the trials of war by engaging in a game of croquet. There was a unique relationship between Southern white women and their slave servants. The deprivations of war often forced them into an unlikely alliance.
Confederate civilians pose forlornly for the camera as they struggle to cope with the war.
Frederick, Maryland citizens welcome General George McClellan and his Union army as they pass through the Antietam campaign. In Beaufort, South Carolina, area citizens in need of food came to the Federal Quartermaster center to get food from the victorious Union army. In New Bern, North Carolina, a family of men, women and children sit helplessly as their home is seized by a Federal officer for his personal headquarters. This cartoon-like drawing shows angry Richmond women participating in the city's bread riots that resulted from food shortages. A depiction of the typical Confederate group of non-combatants, an elderly planter, his daughter and her children, waving encouragement of Confederate soldiers marching to the battle of Chickamauga.