Jim, although admittedly a tangent to your request, I've always gotten a smile from my mental image of this scene. It's from a Private B.F. Watson of the 40th Alabama Infantry, serving under Confederate Brigadier Gen. Alpheus Baker. This comes from his description of the events of mid-March 1865 in some of the last large-scale fighting of the war then taking place along the Goldsboro Road (vicinity of Bentonville, NC). He wrote:

"Baker’s men found the Road littered with the enemy’s discarded baggage and broke ranks to sift through It ... Some of our men grabbed up knapsacks, and one of our Co., Frank Lee, found a silk dress while some found ladies’ garments and Daguerreotypes and Chevalier of Capt. Coleman’s company hauled out a little bag of silver of about 12 dollars ... I grabbed up a frying pan and stuck the handle under my belt as a sort of shield."