Help needed. ie Depot Jackets in WW2 pow camps

[Masked Battery]

Surplus CS jackets.

I, too, have heard the story: Some jackets from the vaunted "92,000 suits of clothing" held by Gov. Vance in 1865 were issued to German POWs during WWI. The uniforms of course were made of English kersey. That explains why all of the six-button NC pattern jackets made of kersey that "should" exist today don't. The jackets issued to the POWs had wooden buttons on them. A quartermaster who was issuing them out in 1918 noted that they were made out of "good English stuff." Some guy who knows some guy saw pictures of Germans wearing them, etc.
It would be neat if this story were true, but I haven't seen anything that has suggested that it is.

Neal

[courier]

Re: Help needed. ie Depot Jackets in WW2 pow camps

Gentlemen,
Ben Tart gave a uniform talk to us last November and that question came up.Without going into details of the talk,his short answer was "I doubt it".Someone closer to him could get his exact response.I also vote on the urban legend answer.There is not a cintilla of evidence by anyone,anywhere,at all period.
Regards,Rick Harris