Gettysburg image

[McKim]

I was reading this article and the quote below made me think about the picture of three Gettysburg prisioners. With the below in mind, I'm off to study that very picture.

A Fire Zouave recalled seeing the captured southerners milling about "picking up haversacks and canteen and blankets" that littered the area preparatory to being shipped off to Federal Prisoner of war camps

http://ehistory.osu.edu/uscw/feature...gettysburg.cfm

[yeoman]

Re: Gettysburg image

Sir, I'm enjoying this site very much as it seems to have alot to offer. You should check the forum "search feature", type "Gettysburg prisoners", this should get you some good looks at these guys and more. Thanks again and enjoy.

[McKim]

Re: Gettysburg image

I have in the past focused on reviewing information from confederates sources about...confederates. However, recently I have focused on finding information from Union soldiers, surgeons, and burial details. As an example, one union soldier performing burial detail at Gettysburg mentions that the confederates had cut the pocket linings out of the pants of union dead, and as normal, shoes and socks.

Now, if they did not have the means to mend a hole in a pocket, how in the heck were they going to sew on a new one. Maybe making the pocket deeper, reinforced heal for socks, make a buck by selling them or?