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Storm clouds brewing in the sky, a leafy tree offers shade for a Sibley tent with the straight taut sides, a cannon poised nearby, a draped American flag with the red and white stripes billowing down from the barrel and over the wheel ends near a lone cannon ball set apart from a pyramid of round shot, a tented encampment in the mid-distance, and a flag waving over a distant coastal fort completes the scene. In late colonial history, the State of Connecticut set aside a large tract of land in Northeast Ohio south of Lake Erie-the Western Reserve. In the Moore Brothers capable hands, the resulting photographs produced certainly contain a higher aesthetic presence while highlighting visual reminders of soldier's camp life.

[...]order, the Sanitary Commission established a complex network that rapidly responded to soldiers' needs. Soldiers standing picket in snowstorms received wool mittens knit with an index finger so they could fire their guns. Flowers and evergreen garlands adorned the stands and tables lining the walls, and an arch draped with American flags rose across the room, topped with the word \"UNION\" in huge letters, all lit by more gas jets. The fragrance of the fresh-cut flowers from Mary Lincoln's White House garden along with the scent of boughs and boughs of evergreens competed with the aroma of baked beans coming from the New England Kitchen, a recreation of a colonial scene complete with volunteers cooking over fireplaces, and women operating antique spinning wheels.