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The Home Front: 1861 to 1865

The Home Front: 1861 to 1865

What was the home front? Where was it?

The home front was everywhere the war was not. In other words, if roughly three million men served at some point in the war, twenty-eight million persons did not. And their lives at home—some quite good, others quite awful—make up the sum total of the home front.