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III. Brigadier General Albin Schoepf is assigned to duty in the Department of the Cumberland, and will repair to Louisville and report to the department commander.
* * * * *
By command of Lieutenant-General Scott:
E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assi... |
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Harvey's (Alonzo D.) Artillery. See Indiana Troops, 15th Battery.
Harvey's (Reuben F.) Infantry. See Arkansas Troops, Confederat
Harvey's (William H.) Infantry. See Illinois Troops, 8th Regiment.
Havis' (Minor ... |
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Delivery of the First and Public Property and Attempted Withdrawal of the U. S. Troops.
UNION CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.
[For Reports, Correspondence, etc., between the Headquarters of the Army and General Twiggs, and other important records relating to this e... |
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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF TEXAS,
San Antonio, March 6, 1861.
Lieutenant Colonel L. THOMAS,
Asst. Adjt. General, Hdqrs. of the Army, Washington, D. C.
COLONEL: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communications forwarded by Major Porter,* a... |
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ing of the 25th it was observed that these steamers had on board some 800 or 1,000 troops, effectually protected with tiers of cotton bales on both decks. It is supposed these steamers had several pieces of artillery.
Colonel Van Dorn sent a messenger, r... |
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It is further stipulated and greed to that all the officers and men who shall give their paroles and oaths as above stated shall be allowed to pass unmolested through the Confederate States of America, by the way of Galveston and up the Mississippi River, ... |
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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF VIRGINIA,
Fort Monroe, Va., January 24, 1862.
Brigadier General L. THOMAS,
Adjutant-General U. S. Army.
GENERAL: In order to complete the list of exchanges, it may be proper to state that the following exchanges had been effect... |
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FORT WARREN, BOSTON HARBOR,
January 25, 1862.
General L. THOMAS,
Adjutant-General, U. S. Army,
SIR: I have just received the following answer by letter from General Hunger to the message I sent him relative to exchanging the North Carolina prisoners of war... |
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Major and Bvt. Lieutenant Colonel J. V. Bromford, Sixth Infantry, retained prisoner. Lieutenant Colonel W. Hoffman, Eighth Infantry; Captain and Bvt. Lieutenant Colonel I. V. D. Reeve, Eighth Infantry; Captain and Bvt. Major J. T. Sprague, Eighth Infantr... |
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to be permitted to visit them. Every comfort compatible with their condition shall be given them, and most surely every protection extended to them. This having been the course of the Confederate States adopted toward its prisoners since the commencement o... |
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to the United States, are matters of extensive detail and of abounding evidence. Having appealed to the South for assistance every appearance indicated a rapid accumulation of men and means for seizing Government property and overturning its authority. I... |
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[Inclosure Numbers 2.]
HEADQUARTERS U. S. TROOPS,
Saint Louis, Mo., May 10, 1861.
General D. M. FROST, Commanding Camp Jackson.
SIR: Your command is regarded as evidently hostile toward the Government of the United States. It is, for the most part, made ... |
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SAINT LOUIS, September 9, 1861.
Major J. M. SCHOFIELD, First Missouri Volunteers.
SIR: Your letter of the 7th instant relative to the status of soldiers who were taken prisoners and released on parole has had the attention of the major-general commanding... |
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the service of the United States or not? This is asked in reference to Colonel Mulligan's regiment but it is desired the decision should apply to all similar cases.
Very respectfully, &c.,
H. W. HALLECK,
Major-General.
HEADQUARTERS TWENTY-SEVENTH REG... |
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GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSISSIPPI, Numbers 13.
Saint Louis, March 30, 1862.
I. Commanders of army corps, divisions and brigades and of military district where their commands are equal to a brigade are authorized to order milita... |
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returned secessionists are also continually petitioning to have additional troops sent to their counties to protect them from the operations of these same rebels.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
H. W. HALLECK,
Major-General.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S ... |
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HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF NORTH MISSOURI,
Saint Louis, August 14, 1861.
Brigadier-General HURLBUT:
SIR: The arrest of Speaker McAfee has been approved by the general commanding and unless he not only pledges himself to keep the peace but will use ... |
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SAINT LOUIS, January 14, 1862.
L. THOMAS, Adjutant-General:
The superintendent of the Quincy and Palmyra Railroad declines to rebuid the bridges recently by the rebels. There are 600 tons of U. S. property at Quincy for transportation over this road. The... |
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military advantage. Moreover peaceful citizens of Missouri quitly working on their farms have been instigated by your emissaries to take up arms as insurgents and to rob and plunder and to commit arson and murder. They do not even act under the g... |
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Answer. There was no conversation that expressed an insufficiency of the safeguard. He stated that an officer who had been there with a small command, and to whom was presented the first safeguard that I left at his residence, doubted its validity when f... |
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Question. Have not the officers in Price's army some distinctive uniform, mark or badge by which they could be known by their men or distinguished from privates?
Answer. A very few of them.
Question. By whose order did you deliver the prisoners t... |
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Answer. Yes, sir; he did join the army of Price. He carried a company of men with him raised in Pettis County and joined the army near Fort Scott, near Dry Wood. He entered my regiment. This was in August as well as I recollect.
Question. Do you know abo... |
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GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE MISSISSIPPI, Numbers 15.
Saint Louis, April 3, 1862.
At the military commission which convened at Danville, Mo., pursuant to Special Orders, Numbers 28, of January 10, 1862, fromthe headquarters Department of the Misso... |
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The prisoners sometimes remain in this wretched prisons weeks before they receive even a blanket which when they get it would hardly have been sufficient for their comfort in summer let alone in a Northern October. The consequence of this severe ... |
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were first taken to Newport, Ky., baracks and there confined in the cells without even a blanket for twenty-four hours. We were then marched at night through the raid and mud to the Little Railroad depot.
But the cars having left we were ordered to about... |
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of State that the political prisoners confined at Fort Lafayette shall be decently lodged and subsisted unless they prefer to provide for themselves. " About the same time I was advised by Lieutenant-Colonel Burke, commanding this post, that his instruct... |
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in writing and if it relates to provisions or other reasonable supplies it will be furnished in the presence of the provost-marshal and without a word being said to the prisoners.
The provost-marshal will have no further conversation with the prisoners th... |
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superseded by the election of successors I trust, sir, you will excuse me for obtruding a word of admonition upon the subject. I beg that you be particular.
To liberate such men as Landing, of Worcester; Maxwell, of Cecil; Claggett, of Frederick, &c.,... |
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stances personal to myself and which I ought no longer to resist [to yield], and in so doing protest against the legal right of the Department of State to make such a demand of me.
ANDREW A. LYNCH.
WASHINGTON, January 25, 1862.
Honorable WILLIAM H. SEWAR... |
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Class 2. Negro boys from twelve to eighteen years of age and sickly and infirm negro men $5 per month, one ration and the necessary amount of clothing.
The quartermaster will furnish all the clothing. The department employign these men will furnis... |
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they should enter our camp) to their owners whoever they might be. This orer it apperas was handed by Lieutenant-Colonel Palfrey to the officer of the day, Mr. Macy, of Company I. On Sunday morning several negroes came into camp as usual for the p... |
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which the punishment shall come. Any departure from this rule strikes immediately at the root of all discipline and subordination. The volunteer regiments from the different States of the Union when accepted and mustered into the service of the Un... |
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Lieutenant-Colonel Palfrey was not "directed to convey censure and reprimand to an officer of his regiment," but that he was informed that he would confer an obligation on me by saying to the officer in question that had I been apprised of the discredita... |
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HEADQUARTERS DEAPRTMENT OF NORTH CAROLINA,
New Berne, March 21, 1862.
Honorable E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of Wae, Washington:
I have the honor to report the following movements in my department sicnce my hurried report of the 16th instant.
I appointed Gen... |
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BRIGADEHEADUQATERS,
Knoxville, Tenn., September 1, 1861.
Colonel BALDWIN.
SIR: I expect to start to- morrow morning Captain McClellan'cavalry company by land to overtake and co- operte with your regiment. He knows the people and theroads well i... |
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KNOXVILE, November 11, 1861.
Adjutant-General COOPER:
Three bridges burned between Bristol and CHattanooga, two on Georgia road. Five hundred Union men now threatening Strawberry Plains; fifteen hundred assembling in Hamilton County; and a general uprisi... |
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with them by the unfrequented mountain paths, and to prevent surprise and the destruction of the commissary and quartermaster's stores.
I am, very resepctfully, your obedient servant,
W. B. WOOD,
Colonel, Commanding Post.
SPECIAL ORDERS,
ADJT... |
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STATE OF TENNESSEE,
Bradley County:
Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, an acting justice of the peace and duly authorized to administer oaths within and for the county and State aforesaid, G. R. Hambright and Benjamin Hambright, ... |
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said Trewhitt every person there assembled was procured and did agree to keep out of all rebellion and keep away from Clift and his rebellion and go on with their ordinary business, and the said Trewhitt especially advised them to keep out of Clift's reb... |
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In my previous letter I set down three divisions (say 30,000 effective men) as the force that would be required for East Tennessee, two to penetrate the country and one to keep open communications. I believe that is the least force that will suffice and ... |
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any particular point in regard to this vessel which you desire to investigate, and if so I will he happy to look over the papers with reference to it and report to you the result.
I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
GEO. A. COFF... |
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Question. Is. Mr. Creasy one of the owners?
Answer. I presume the owners are Messrs. Richard Plummer, John T. Page, enoch M. Read, J. B. and J. w. Creasy, J. F. and Thomas Atwood and myself.
Question. Has has as far as I know. Her papers show it s... |
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Question. And that cargo was on board of her so far as you know on the 6th of July?
Answer. I presume that it was. It was on board the 2nd andmust have been on board on the 6th.
Mr. WHARTON. You did not go with the vessel?
The WITNESS. I did not g... |
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3. Colonel Corcodan, Sixty - ninth New York State Militia.
4. Colonel Woodruff, Second Kentucky Regiment.
5. Colonel Willcox, First Michigan Regiment.
6. Colonel Wood, Fourteenth New York State Militia, Brooklyn.
They were places fairly in a ti... |
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Confederate authorities for the purpose of effecting an excharge, pledging himself to return as a prisoner if he failed to accomplish the object.
I have now under my control several individuals formerly lieutenants in the U. S. Navy, * held in cust... |
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communication prevents my giving you a definite answer relative to their wishes on the subject proposed. I will, however, immediately communicate with them and will convey their answer to you under flag of truce at the same point to-morrow at 12 m.
... |
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On comparing oposition it did not appear that there was any essential difference on any of the questions presented, except the following offered by you, viz:
Prisoners to be discharged or paroled within ten days of their capture and to be deliv... |
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estimates for both works immediately. The extension to be 100 feet long, forty-one or forty-two feet wide, three stories high, with a hall dividing each floor into two long wards. Estimate what the cost will be if you build it youself. The bake-hou... |
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time and money, and while I was waiting for a reply to a reference of the matter to the Quartermaster-General I prepared a notice calling for proposals, which I left at the printer's office ready for use in case that course was decided on, but I wa... |
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executionof this order in Louisville and wherever you may hear of prisoenrs, except at Covington, where commanding officer attends toit.
J. B. FRY,
Chief of Staff.
SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS, In camp, May 5, 1862. Numbers 41.
* * * * *
III. C... |
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the commander of the U. S. ship Ino at Gibraltar to forward to this Department by the first opportunity offering the property which he is said to have taken from Mr. Tunstall, in order that it may be restored to him.
I am, very respectfully, your ... |
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[Inclosure Numbers 2.]
FORT COLUMBUS, May 6, 1862.
Colonel G. LOOMIS, U. S. Army, Commanding Post.
COLONEL: Understanding that I was to visit my men in the castle with a view to ascertaining their absolute wants I have the honor to report that I h... |
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men as reported to me have not until now been in a condition to be removed without danger to the lives of at least a portion of them. I expected to have had them transferred to you at an early date, and I made repeated inquires and even visit t... |
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WARREN, OHIO, May 13, 1862.
Honorable E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
SIR: At the battle of Cross Lanes in Virginia August 26, 1861, the Seventh Ohio Volunteers lost about 150 men prisoners who have never been exchanged. O lost two men from my co... |
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[Indorsement Numbers 2.]
QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL'S OFFICE, May 23, 1862.
Respectfully returned to the Secretary of War.
The only opportunity this department has had of sending clothing to prisoners of war has been through a flag of truce from For... |
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compulsory entlistment of Her Majesty's subjects in military bodies in this State. This letter explains itself. It is inclosed to you that you may be put in possession of the action of the executive upon the question raised by the letter of the... |
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[Inclosure.]
OFFICE OF COMMISSARY OF SUBSISTENCE,
Richmond, Va., August 26, 1861.
Colonel L. B. NORTHROP,
Commissary-General of Subsistence, richmond, Va.
COLONEL: In compliance with instructions from you to report the circumstances concerning ... |
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States. Let such notice be accompanied by an assurance that any provisions, &c., furnished by the United States shall be applied to their comfort and support, and also a request that they be furnished. Should the United States recognize t... |
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our men relased from Fort Warren on parole I am authorized to notify them that they are released from their parole.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
BENJ. HUGER,
Major-General.
A late letter* from General Wool states he had requested that... |
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You will observe Lieutenant William Dickinson has been exchanged for Lieutenant Tattnall. I made this offer before I got instructions to offer him for Lieutenant Sayre, on parole, and request another lieutenant may be approved for Lieutenant... |
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RICHMOND, March 4, 1862.
Honorable J. P. BENJAMIN, Secretary of War.
SIR: In compliance with your letter of instructions of the 18th of February I proceeded immediately to Norfolk to meet and confer with Major-General Wool, of the U. S. Army, o... |
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HDQRS. DEPT. OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA,
Charleston, May 17, 1862.
Colonel A. L. LONG,
Military Secretar, Headquarters Commanding General.
COLONEL: I have the honor to transmit herewith copy* of a letter addressed by myself to Major Gener... |
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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE APPOMATTOX,
Petersburg, May 23, 1862.
Honorable G. W. RANDOLPH, Secretary of War.
SIR: I inclose herewith a letter* received from Major-General Wool last night. I telegraphed you requesting to be informed when the... |
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OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,
Washington, D. C., December 1, 1862.
Honorable EDWARD SALOMON,
Governor of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.
GOVERNOR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 24th ultimo,* together with ... |
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HEADQUARTERS PAROLED PRISONERS,
Near Annapolis, Md., December 3, 1862.
Colonel W. HOFFMAN, Commissary-General of Prisoners.
SIR: In compliance with your instructions I have the honor to report the number of men from the different Western States... |
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Confederate; (2) Joseph Winger for George Carter, Confederate; (3) George G. Rupley for Doctor Jackson, Confederate; (4) J. M. McCowan for John C. Spiggs, Confederate; (5) Sanford Schroeder for Henry A. Ball, Confederate; (6) Andrew Hartman for Joh... |
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you a reply in writing whether you can furnish me the guard called for and needed.
I am, colonel, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
GEO. SANGSTER,
Lieutenant-Colonel, Commanding Paroled Prisoners.
Inclosure Numbers 11.] SPECIAL ORDERS,
... |
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are not entitled to them nor receive them, such as sly recruiting officers, C. S. Army, bushwhackers and guerrilas, men who have violated oath, &c.
N. B. - I have written to the commanding officer of the Fifth Missouri Cavalry inquiring con... |
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amount of tax to be diverted from its proper destination and it is now in the hands of the post treasurer at Camp Chase, instead of in the possession of the officer in charge of the prison, as by article 6 of the general regulations from your o... |
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favorable in every respect than on the date of my last report to you of it, and with the improvements already authorized by you will certainly if properly controlled be above any reasonable grounds for complaint. With the exception of articles 6 a... |
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minds of provost-marshals and others within this command as to the proper treatment of soldiers discharged from the rebel service and of those whose term of enlistment had expired. Inquiries have also been made as to the treatment of captured sold... |
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and fourth, the disposition made in the second cases, with the date of such disposition.
In all cases where prisoners are forwarded for exchange or sent under custody beyond the limits of the State reports similarly arranged will be at once for... |
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WASHINGTON, February 13, 1863.
Lieutenant Colonel W. H. LUDLOW, Agent for Exchange of Prisoners.
How many citizen prisoners do you want for exchange?
W. HOFFMAN,
Commissary-General of Prisoners.
OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,
Washington, ... |
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OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,
Washington, D. C., February 13, 1863.
Lieutenant Colonel W. E. DOSTER, Provost-Marshal, Washington, D. C.
COLONEL: I beg leave to notify you that I have ordered from the West about 150 citizen prisoners t... |
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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF VIRGINIA,
Fort Monroe, February 13, 1863.
Colonel HOFFMAN, Commissary-General of Prisoners.
COLONEL: I am informed that the men of the Eighth U. S. Infantry captured in Texas and so long detained there are now at Carroll... |
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prisoners of war were sent from Johnson's Island to Vicksburg for exchange who were rejected and sent back because they were crazy or imbecile.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
W. HOFFMAN,
Colonel Third Infantry, Commissary-General of ... |
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inclined to take with them all whom they were not forced to reject.
This fact goes to corroborate the report that nine slight cases were permitted to pass by the rebel surgeon who examined them.
Whatever injury may have the forwarding of prison... |
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My part in this transaction has been but a subordinate one, having generals on both sides of me to give to receive the orders, and I feel conscious that I performed my whole duty faithfully, carefully and with judgment, as is fully established by t... |
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be carefully removed by the quartermaster and used for the enlarging of Prisons Nos. 1 and 2, repairs thereon, &c. The subject of drainage for the camp is one that has occupied not a little of my consideration and is a problem of no little dif... |
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OFFICE COMMISSARY - GENERAL OF PRISONERS,
Washington, D. C., May 2, 1863.
Colonel J. HOLT, Judge - Advocate - General, Washington, D. C.
COLONEL: I have the honor to ask your attention to the case of Dr. Joseph E. Dixon, of the rebel army, a priso... |
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outside the prison walls. The utter impossibility of having any of her own sex to attend her in sickness makes it impossible for her medical attendants to render her that assistance they could under other circumstances.
Respectfully, yours,
AND... |
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[The commission met and adjourned from time to time, disposing of such business as was brought before it, till May 6, which was of its sittings the]
TWELFTH DAY.
CINCINNATI, OHIO, Wednesday, May 6, 1863.
The commission met pursuant to adjournme... |
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Bowers, judge-advocate. The troops now guarding the prisoners will accompany them as guards to Memphis from where they will immediately return to this place. The prisoners not to be debarked at Memphis but sent immediately on to Island No. 10. ... |
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Frontier; Brigadier-General Davies, District of Rolla; Colonel Lewis Merrill, District of Northeast Missouri; Colonel Chester Harding, Jr., Saint Joseph, District of Northwest Missouri; Brigadier-General Loan, Jefferson City, Mo., District of Centr... |
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urge that all prisoners captured in this department whether by the Army of Navy shall be retained as hostages for the safety of the officers and troops under my command if captured by the enemy; the alleged act of the rebel Congress not declaring ... |
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the time Streigth's brigade was taken, was released on parole and is now at Annapolis. The military officers of that brigade are all held by the rebels who refuse to exchange them. Five other surgeons of that same brigade are with him. Their regim... |
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could be paid, and it has been understood at these camps that the prisoners were under the immediate control of the commissary-general of prisoners.
A. E. BURNSIDE,
Major-General.
CINCINNATI, May 31, 1863.
General AMMEN, Springfield, Ill.
Gener... |
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Carolina and Georgia. They have been confined here some time and are many of them a desperate, bad set of men. You will please send by return guard a receipt for them, and also order the guard furnished with rations for their return to this pos... |
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of money raised by these illegal assessments in the small county of Tucker as near as I can ascertain it is about $6,000. Were I to report every case of outrage of this character which has come to my knowledge it would astound all Christian p... |
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I known something of the treatment of the prisoners. They are put in huddles, sometimes 500 and 700 in one building. Sometimes they are treated well by the commandant and the wardens, but I have seen them severely punished. I have seen them tie... |
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the captain. The cell is not a comfortable place; it is dry but cold. I suffered from the cold and was fed on bread and water. I think I was kept there five days. I thought the letter would go quicker and surer by sending through private hands.... |
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of them. I am unable to say on what terms Varner was released, nor can I say whether he has gone beyond our lines. I will inquire.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
W. HOFFMAN,
Colonel third Infantry and Commissary-General of Prisoners.... |
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on account of the crowded state of the prison at this time we could not receive them. They were sent to Saint Louis to be provided for by the provost-marshal-general of Missouri at that city. The number of prisoners confined here i... |
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addition whatever to the stock of clothing they brought with them, except such articles as are absolutely necessary, and the must be of the description heretofore prescribed. One suit of outer clothing and a change of underclothing... |
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WASHINGTON, D. C., August 27, 1863.
Major General H. W. HALLECK, General-in-Chief, &c.:
SIR: The proposal of the 12th instant, on the subject of paroles, directed by you with the approval of the Honorable Secretary of War, was presented to ... |
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terms, a descriptive list of each case will be preserved at the headquarters of the department, and a copy transmitted to the Commissary-General of Prisoners, as a means of detecting any violation of the condition of the discharge.... |
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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA,
September 24, 1863.
Honorable ROBERT OULD,
Commissioner for Exchange of Prisoners, Richmond, Va.:
SIR: I am under the impression that an agreement purporting to have been made between you and ... |
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CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA WAR DEPARTMENT,
Richmond, Va., September 30, 1863.
A. M. KEILEY, Esq., House of Delegates:
SIR: I have read with some surprise your letter of the 29th instant relative to the action of the officers in c... |
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RICHMOND, October 2, 1863.
Brigadier General S. A. MEREDITH, Agent of Exchange:
SIR: I am very glad that Lieutenants Baker, Pumphrey, Crutcher, and Thorne have at last been released. There are many other officers yet behind precisel... |
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I found the bath and wash house used for storing straw for bedding. The hospital fund is not expended with sufficient freedom in procuring comforts for the sick, nor could I ascertain that any account of the less perishable articles, as table f... |
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