Overwhelmed Confederates found it hard to keep fugitive Federal POWs behind bars in the war’s final days. YANKEES SNEAKED through the South Carolina countryside at night, digging sweet potatoes out of fields, breaking into barns and burrowing into haylofts. Their bodies were infested with lice, vermin they carried every place they stopped for the night. …
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