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One newspaper called the 19th Iowa prisoners who marched through New Orleans “the apparitions of a regiment…Hatless and shoeless, without shirts and even garments that decemcy forbids us to name…l” But the ex-19th Iowa POWs here look relatively healthy. Interestingly, the men in the bottom photo, all officers, wear shoes. (Library of Congress, 2)