CHAPTER XLI.
CLOTHING: ITS RAPID DETERIORATION, AND DEVICES TO REPLENISH IT--DESPERATE EFFORTS TO COVER NAKEDNESS--"LITTLE RED CAP" AND HIS LETTER.
Clothing had now become an object of real solicitude to us older prisoners.

The veterans of our crowd--the surviving remnant of those captured at Gettysburg--had been prisoners over a year.

The next in seniority--the Chickamauga boys--had been in ten months.

The Mine Run fellows were eight months old, and my battalion had had seven months' incarceration.

None of us were models of well-dressed gentlemen when captured.