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On July 2, 1863, 499 men of the 15th Alabama Infantry charged up the boulder-strewn slopes of Little Round Top into the rifles of Colonel Joshua Chamberlain's 20th Maine. By nightfall, every commissioned officer in Company G was dead or dying. The Maine Rebels, based in Farmington, portray the Henry Pioneers (15th AL Co. G) as a member unit of the Liberty Greys.

Civil War army camps were not made up of soldiers alone. Laundresses, nurses, sutlers, wives, and even children were often present and played practical roles in daily camp life. Regulations recognized some of these roles, and soldiers wrote about their importance. To understand Civil War camps accurately, we must look beyond the battlefield and consider the civilians who helped sustain the army.