Factoid of the day take two

Quote of the day: From the Dixie Book of Days (today's Librivox offering)

STONEWALL JACKSON’S MEN HELP THEMSELVES TO POPE’S SUPPLIES, 1862
Weak and haggard from their diet of green corn and apples, one can well imagine with what surprise their eyes opened upon the contents of the sutler’s stores, containing an amount and variety of property such as they had never conceived. Then came a storming charge of men rushing in a tumultuous mob over each other’s heads, under each other’s feet, anywhere, everywhere to satisfy a craving stronger than a yearning for fame. There were no laggards in that charge.... Men ragged and famished clutched tenaciously at whatever came in their way, and whether of clothing or food, of luxury or necessity. A long yellow-haired, bare-footed son of the South claimed as prizes a tooth-brush, a box of candles, a barrel of coffee. From piles of new clothing the Southerners arrayed themselves in the blue uniforms of the Federals. The naked were clad, the barefooted were shod, and the sick provided with luxuries to which they had long been strangers.

From Wikipedia:Sutler's stores was the generic name for entrepeneurs who followed the armies in various American wars to sell them needed supplies. Sometimes they also supplied other ways for soldiers to enjoy their R&R