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Camp Life at Queen's Farm near Fort Bunker Hill in 1861.

Image of Federal soldier and family (wife and three children) at their camp, Queen's Farm near Fort Bunker Hill during the Civil War.

In the early months of the war, women worked as laundresses and cooks while the volunteer soldiers drilled and constructed the Defenses of Washington. TITLE: "Washington, District of Columbia. Tent life of the 31st Penn. Inf. (later, 82d Penn. Inf.) at Queen's farm, vicinity of Fort Bunker Hill."

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