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Hugh Simmons posted something on the subject in Dec. 2007 on the Civil War Prisons website. It appears that he might be skeptical about the origin of the photo of "Morgans Raiders" on the book cover. I do not see a paradox. They were captured at the height of their success in Aug. 1863. Nine months (spring of 1864) must be a very long time when a man is in combat and fighting constantly behind enemy lines.

Levy quoted from a T. D. Henry writing in the Southern Historical Society Papers: �Generally they (Morgan�s Raiders) are far better looking men than any of the secesh prisoners we had here before� a reporter conceded. �Those butternut suits and shapeless slouched hats, would make an ugly man of anybody. All the colors of Joseph�s coats were represented in their wearing apparel: the butternut was worn by the careless quiet looking individuals, who had their horse blankets and tin cups strung across their shoulders. But the keen, black eyed out-and-out �raiders� of the dare devil stripe, had either a suit of black broadcloth, or a portion of our own soldier�s blue uniform.�

Photos I have seen of Morgan's Officers taken at Fort Delaware in the spring of 1864 show most of them wearing regulation Confederate uniform. (Hugh Simmons).

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