[538] Resolutions of Gen. Assembly, Aug. 27, 1863.
[539] Act of Gen. Assembly, Dec. 8, 1863.
[540] Acts of Gen. Assembly, Dec. 4 and Dec. 7, 1863.
[541] Acts of Gen. Assembly, Oct. 7, 1864, and Dec. 13, 1864.
[542] Act of Gen. Assembly, Dec. 9, 1864.
[543] Act of Gen. Assembly, Dec. 13, 1864.
[544] Act of Gen. Assembly, Dec. 4, 1864.
[545] Acts of Gen. Assembly, Dec. 8, 1862, Aug. 27 and 29, 1863, and Dec. 13, 1864.
[546] Acts of Gen. Assembly, Dec. 8, 1863. There were Confederate soldiers who were paid only twice in two years’ service, and then not enough to buy a new uniform. The following incident is related of the 9th Alabama Infantry: at Chancellorsville some Federals had been captured by the regiment, and as they were being sent back over the field covered with dead Federals, one of the prisoners remarked: “You rebs are sharper than you used to be. You used to shoot us anywhere; now you shoot us in the head so as not to bloody our clothes.” The 9th was a regiment of sharpshooters from north Alabama. The narrator says that the prisoner was alluding to “the practice of stripping the dead of their clothing to cover our nakedness.”—“The Land We Love,” Vol. II, pp. 216.
[547] The legislature had offered $200,000 for 50,000 pairs of shoes, but received none.