From the Disunion essay: "Union soldiers on the morning of Dec. 16 discovered that white comrades slain the day before had been stripped naked overnight by desperate Confederates in need of food, supplies and clothing, while the African-American dead were left untouched. Southern infantrymen, it seems, would rather go barefoot in winter than wear the shoes of a black man and go hungry instead of eating his hardtack."
From the Disunion essay: "Union soldiers on the morning of Dec. 16 discovered that white comrades slain the day before had been stripped naked overnight by desperate Confederates in need of food, supplies and clothing, while the African-American dead were left untouched. Southern infantrymen, it seems, would rather go barefoot in winter than wear the shoes of a black man and go hungry instead of eating his hardtack."