Some televised prints of this short edit out the scene where it's revealed that "Dodge's" baby is an African-American infant. When Moe brings back the black baby into the Colonel's mansion, he attempts to explain how the baby got his dark complexion ("We had him down the beach all summer...he got quite sunburned!").
The scene where Major Hyde "accidentally" holds a fatally incriminating letter too close to a candle and burns it up, was not in the original script. That was improvised by Curly Howard on the set.
The introductory music over the titles is a medley of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" (most popular marching song of the Union Army) and "Dixie" (which had the same status in the Confederate Army).
This is the first appearance of The Three Stooges' running gag about "Good Time Charlie". When the Stooges meet a guard, they ask about Charlie. The guard asks who Charlie is, and a Stooge replies that "everybody knows Charlie. He walks like this." The Stooges then demonstrate a silly walk until they get clear of the guard, at which point they take off running. In this one, they actually meet a soldier named Charlie, who asks the Stooges, "Are you all looking for me?"
The potholder gag would later appear in Three Hams on Rye (1950) during a live theatrical production. A similar sequence also appears in All Gummed Up (1947), also featuring Shemp. The scene is nearly identical, with bubblegum being used in the place of the potholder, the Stooges coughing up bubbles rather than feathers consequently.
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