Does "their disengaged camp followers" in the following context mean "non-military people attending the battle field along with the army"?
Context:
The year before The Surrender, prolific French artist Jacques Callot released his extraordinary etchings (eighteen of them, including the title page) exposing the downside of conflict – the so-called Large Miseries of War (1633). His seemingly emotionally neutral depiction of executions, hangings, killings, the practitioners of war, and their disengaged camp followers speaks not only to a brutality observed but also to a numbing of the mind and soul.
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