Meanings of badly clad in English

They had an intense pity for the poor men in the trenches, badly clad and half starved, grand, patient, ill-used, uncomplaining fellows!

From Lexington toward Cumberland Gap, Brigadier-General Thomas, one Indiana and five Ohio regiments, two Kentucky and two Tennessee; hired wagons and badly clad.

He had no relations, and no one to tan robes or furs for him, and he was always badly clad and in rags.

Even among those returned capable of doing duty, many were so badly clad, that exposure to the cold of the season must have destroyed them.