receipt will be given. A quartermaster or acting quartermaster will take charge of every horse so taken and be responsible for him and the commanding officer will see that every horse is accounted for. BUELL, Major-General. HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF VIRGINIA, Major-General BURNSIDE, Commanding at Fredericksburg, Va. GENERAL: With this are sent thirteen citizens of Fairfax County, prisoners whom Major-General Pope respectfully requests that you will transmit through your lines. Respectfully, your obedient servant, [R. O. SELFRIDGE,] Assistant Adjutant-General. HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA, Petersbury, August 9, 1862. Maj. Gen. JOHN A. DIX, U. S. Army, Commanding Army Corps. GENERAL: I am directed by the general commanding the district to say that no more prisoners will be received at City Point. I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant, ARCHER ANDERSON, Assistant Adjutant-General. HEADQUARTERS, Suffolk, Va., August 9, 1862. Maj. Gen. JOHN A. DIX, Commanding Fort Monroe, Va. SIR: I inclose a copy of the printed regulations for the provost marshal, &c., for your perusal. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, JOS. K. F. MANSFIELD, [Inclosure No. 1.] NOTICE. Duties of the provost-marshal. PROVOST-MARSHAL'S OFFICE, Suffolk, August 6, 1862. 1. To preserve order and decorum in the streets, arrest all drunken persons, supervise the transactions at all the stores and with the market people and prevent the sale of all intoxicating liquors; see that no unusual supplies of groceries are taken into the country by which the rebel Army will obtain comforts. The article of salt particularly will be limited and none allowed to be brought into the city for sale except by the special written permission of the commanding general. 2. He will know the business of every white man in the city to satisfy himself that they are not spies or in the pay of the rebels, and will require all white persons to pass through the pickets to give their parole of honor or take the oath of allegiance. Such deserters as come in from the enemy he will examine and send to headquarters. 3. All black men and women who come in from the enemy's lines will be examined and given passes to go where they please within our lines and work for a livelihood. 4. All strangers coming into the city to open stores by permission from headquarters must be sound Union citizens and required in addition to take the oath of allegiance. 5. Whenever a house is suspected of having arms, ammunition, or contraband letters, &c., in it concealed he will first communicate with headquarters before making the search. 6. All persons living in the city or within the picket guards who are not regarded as reliable will be required to take the parole of honor, and any persons found violating their parole will be seized and put in close confinement and reported at headquarters. 7. Any person engaged in interrupting the regular market people, in threatening them for bringing in supplies or selling to the army, will be seized if within the jurisdiction of the provost-marshal and reported to headquarters for punishment. If such persons live beyond the control of the provost-marshal he will report the facts to headquarters. 8. In case of alarm at night the provost-guard will require all citizens to keep in their houses and all confusion in the streets corrected at once. 9. In order to detect imposition and to punish all violations of paroles and oaths the provost-marshal will keep a record of all persons taking the oath or giving their parole. 10. The provost-marshal will protect all persons from imposition, depredations and insults in the streets and allow no hinderance in the way of the municipal laws of the city that do not conflict with the military duties. By command of Brigadier-General Mansfield: [Inclosure No. 2.] NOTICE. C. H. DYER, Assistant Adjutant-General. PROVOST-MARSHAL'S OFFICE, Suffolk, August 6, 1862. In accordance with section 2 of General Orders, No. 1, it is necessary that all white citizens doing business in this town should leave their names, occupations, &c., at this office. On and after this date a record will be kept open daily from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. for those who may desire to respect this order. It is essentially necessary they should do so as soon as possible. Also all citizens who have not heretofore taken the parole of honor will call at this office for the purpose of doing the same. Regular office hours for the issue of paroled passes, &c., will be (as usual) from 9 to 12 m. daily. By order of Lieut. Albert Weber, provost-marshal. ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Governor ANDREW JOHNSON, Nashville, Tenn.: Arrangements are being made for exchange of prisoners in the West. Please telegraph what you wish done in regard to prisoners from Tennessee who will take the oath of allegiance. Shall they be discharged where they now are on taking the oath, or be sent to Tennessee? L. THOMAS, Adjutant-General. ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Col. WILLIAM HOFFMAN, Commissary-General of Prisoners: Maj. H. S. Burton, L. THOMAS, Adjutant-General. ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Commanding Fort Delaware, New Castle, Del.: Administer the oath of allegiance to the prisoners left behind for that purpose; discharge them and send list of them here. Send the French privateersmen under a proper escort, with any other prisoners of war well enough, to Fort Monroe to report to General Dix. L. THOMAS, Adjutant-General. OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS, Col. S. BURBANK, Detroit, Mich., August 9, 1862. Thirteenth Infantry, U. S. Army, Comdg., Cincinnati, Ohio: COLONEL: The three prisoners referred to in your letter of the 5th instant must remain where they are for the present or they must be taken charge of at Newport Barracks. If the expected exchange of prisoners takes place they will be exchanged with the rest, if not they will be ordered to one of the prison camps. Please send me their names with their rank, regiment and company and when and where captured. Please send me the charges against James R. Hallam, H.D. Helm and Thomas L. Jones, political prisoners recently sent to Camp Chase. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, W. HOFFMAN, Colonel Third Infantry, Commissary-General of Prisoners. OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS, Capt. H. W. FREEDLEY, Third Infantry, U. S. Army. CAPTAIN: You will proceed immediately to Camp Butler, Springfield, Ill., and prepare the prisoners there to be removed to such point as may be designated for exchange. All who wish it are permitted to take the oath of allegiance to the United States and on doing so they will be discharged. For this purpose complete lists of them will be prepared, one for the Adjutant General at Washington and one for this office. The oath will not be administered till further orders. Any sidearms belonging to prisoners at Fort Donelson, not pistols, will be returned to them at the point where the exchange is made. Duplicate rolls will be required of all to be exchanged whether present or on parole. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, W. HOFFMAN, Colonel Third Infantry, Commissary-General of Prisoners. OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS, General C. P. BUCKINGHAM, Detroit, Mich., August 9, 1862. Asst. Adjt. Gen., War Department, Washington, D. C. GENERAL: I inclose two cases* from provost-marshal in Kentucky for the action of the War Department. They require immediate action, and it seems to me that to meet such cases some discretion should be placed in my hands. Within the past three or four days I have referred several petitions to be laid before the War Department through you in order to hasten a decision, but as it is irregular I will do so no more unless I have instructions to continue it. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, W. HOFFMAN, Colonel Third Infantry, Commissary-General of Prisoners. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, August 9, 1862. L. C. BAKER, Provost-Marshal, War Department: You will arrest, convey to and detain in the Old Capitol Prison, in Washington, D. C., the following-named persons residing in Fredericksburg, Va., viz: G. H. C. Rowe, Montgomery Slaughter, John J. Berry, Michael Ames, Edwin Carter, J. H. Roberts, John F. Scott, William H. Norton, W. Roy Mason, John Coakley, Benjamin Temple, Abraham Cox, James Cooke and Lewis Wrenn, and it is ordered that said persons be detained until otherwise instructed in custody as hostages for the safety of the following-named prisoners of war, citizens of the United States, who have been arrested and now imprisoned in Richmond, Va., viz: Maj. Charles Williams, Peter Couse, Squire Ralston, Burnham Wardwell, A. M. Pickett, Thomas Morrison and Moses Morrison. By order of the Secretary of War: L. C. TURNER, COLUMBUS, OHIO, August 9, 1862. Col. WILLIAM HOFFMAN, Commissary-General of Prisoners. COLONEL: I have the honor to inclose a list of all articles purchased for the use of the prisons since I assumed the charge of them here. None of these articles have been paid for and I did not consequently require this list to come from the commanding officer this month (for *Not found. July), but it will hereafter be made in accordance with your circular of regulations. I have directed and the commissary is purchasing fresh vegetables for the prisoners three times in each week. They will be issued in place of the beans or rice or hominy, the issue of these articles being regulated as already described to you. The amount of fresh vegetables which is issued in lieu of any of these articles is that quantity which can be purchased with the sum of money credited by the assistant commissary to the fund at the contract price of the article; the quantity of the article being the whole number of rations of it at any, or rather that particular time of issue, which are saved or not drawn. The allowance of each article of beans, hominy or rice being only that amount necessary for the absolute necessities of the prisoners, the list of the board of council being used as a standard as you have directed, I would suggest the propriety of your requiring the quartermaster here to pay for the articles on the list forwarded by me to you. The most of them were purchased from Messrs. Aiken & Emory's establishment. I suggest this as the present quartermaster will probably soon be relieved from Camp Chase and these gentlemen might again have the payment of their bills delayed. As you will observe there is a sufficiently large fund to make the payment from it should you think this advisable. In forwarding to you this morning the papers* in the case of Captain Walker I omitted to mention that the contract went into operation on the 15th day of June, and that consequently the amount of the wastage enumerated in the paper designated F in those sent is the amount for a half month only. The wastage charged to the Government in July was from such proportion enormous, and should in my opinion have all been the loss of the contractors instead of their being credited with it. I feel much interest in this matter and much desire an expression of your opinion upon my course throughout. The pet clerk of the Governor (Tod) about whom he wrote to you has proved a perfectly worthless, unreliable man; he has been drunk more than half the time and in consequence the papers have been much delayed. I have had him discharged from the office. I respectfully recommend the employment of a sober, reliable citizen clerk to whom should be paid a sufficient salary. At present the office duty is dependent upon the pleasure and leisure of three-months' soldier-clerks, toward whom I have found it absolutely necessary to be exceedingly indulgent in order to get them to do promptly what they would under anything but such a system of military rule as prevails at Camp Chase be required to do and punished if they did not. They desire more than 40 cents per day, their present allowance. Shall it be given to them? If so how much may they be paid from the fund? I think that it will be found necessary to put all the labor upon a citizen clerk or to increase their allowance under the existing circumstances. Captain Peyton, whose case was referred to you and about whom you wrote in your last letter, desires that his parole should not be recalled with those of the others having the limits of the city until at least his case referred by you to Washington is heard from. Shall it be recommended to Governor Tod? He is a very trustworthy prisoner. With much respect, I am, colonel, your obedient servant, H. M. LAZELLE, Captain Eighth Infantry, U. S. Ármy. *Not found; but see p. 677 et seq. |