Winter quarters at Brandy Station During the Civil War, soldiers
and officers spent a great deal of time at camps such as the one
in this photograph, taken of officers of the 1st Brigade, Horse
Artillery, at their winter quarters at Brandy Station, Virginia
in February 1864. The eastern theater of the war had witnessed
the Battle of Brandy Station on June 9, 1863, which was
technically a Confederate victory. However, the battle
demonstrated that the Union cavalry had improved greatly since
the beginning of the war. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported on
battles and movements of troops at the front. Women were
involved in all areas of the Civil War. The role of the woman in
this photograph is unknown, but it is probable that she worked
to support the troops in some fashion. Thousands of women came
to the camps as nurses, and some even worked on the
battlefields. Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross,
is the most famous example of a woman who worked for the Union
army as a nurse on the battlefields. Eve