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Then & Now: Do you know where this is? Melissa McKeon Chamberlin, Barnard & Co., pictured in this July 4, 1865, image, was doing its part, as so many others were, to greet the soldiers who came marching home after the Northern victory in the Civil War. Like so many, this establishment’s employees and owners were likely joyous to see the end of the terrible conflict that had claimed more than 600,000 American lives, a record that stood as more than all other wars combined until more than 100 years later. Massachusetts lost more than 5,000 in battle, about 13,000 total (including those who died from disease) of the more than 140,000 the state sent to battle from its 1.2 million free residents. The war that took so many lives also left hundreds of thousands of others wounded and often maimed so that they would not work again, or at least not in their prewar profession. ....