As August drew to a close in Chambersburg, the town had just begun its rebuilding effort. Over the course of the next several years Chambersburg would erect new buildings, open new businesses, and grow into a new town. August of 1864 juxtaposes Chambersburg's determination to move into the future beyond the Civil War with the scars of the war still visible. Even as the physical scars of the war disappeared, replaced with a newer Chambersburg, the legacy of the war remained. Its specific physical and historical experience with the war was distinct, but the struggle to recreate a home out of the battlefield of the Civil War extended across the entire newly re-United States. The homefront had become a sort of battlefront, and with the war done, the battle became one to make Chambersburg a home once again.