Mr. Scott, that is a question I have wanted answered myself. The only thing I can think of is that they were starving, malnourished and tough as hell. I have said that the Army if Northern Virginia was living on their reputation as they marched in to Pennsylvania.
The Civil War Times magazine published a letter from a Pennsylvania farmer recounting the ANV passing by his farm. He expected to see a great and powerful army but what he saw was dirty, stinking, walking scarecrows.
These Confederate prisoners with their sunken cheeks and skinny legs may indicate they had been starved and malnourished but they still look dangerous and proud.
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