Sherman's Bummers

 These were depicted in Gone With the Wind but I don't remember that bit.

The "bummers" and foragers of Sherman's Army in the Grand Review, Washington D.C., May 24, 1865, From a sketch by our Special Artist J. E. Taylor. Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College. Published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, June 10, 1865, p. 180.

Bummers was a nickname applied to foragers of Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's Union army during its March to the Sea and north through South Carolina and North Carolina during the American Civil War. More