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The excerpt below was related from Camp Morton, a Northern prison. The prison camps of the North attained a higher mortality rate than the prison camps of the South — despite being surrounded by plentiful food sources and medical supplies. Evidence abounds of intentional maltreatment and starvation as the cause.
Bernhard Thuersam, www.Circa1865.com The Great American Political Divide
Why Rebels Wore Ragged Clothes
“The legislators of Indiana and Governor Morton, with their wives and daughters, went on a visit of inspection to the prisoners in Camp Morton in 1864. The Confederates were called out for dress parade and were made to look as well as possible. This distinguished body rode in fine carriages. One lady had her carriage stopped about ten feet from the line. Opening the side door of the carriage and pushing her head out, she asked: “Why do you Rebel soldiers dress so poorly?”
Crockett Hudson of Eagleville, Tennessee replied: “Gentlemen of the South have two suits — one that they wear among nice people, and one that they wear when killing hogs, and that is the one in which we are dressed to-day.”
She ordered the carriage to move on.”
(Why The Rebels Wore Ragged Clothes, Elder J.K. Womack, Confederate Veteran Magazine, February 1913, page 58)
Crockett Hudson of Eagleville, Tennessee replied: “Gentlemen of the South have two suits — one that they wear among nice people, and one that they wear when killing hogs, and that is the one in which we are dressed to-day."
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