The War of the Rebellion: v. 1-8 [serial no. 114-121] Correspondence, orders, reports and returns, Union and Confederate, relating to prisoners of war and to state or political prisoners. 1894 [i.e. 1898]-1899. 8 vU.S. Government Printing Office, 1899 - Confederate States of America Official records produced by the armies of the United States and the Confederacy, and the executive branches of their respective governments, concerning the military operations of the Civil War, and prisoners of war or prisoners of state. Also annual reports of military departments, calls for troops, correspondence between national and state governments, correspondence between Union and Confederate officials. The final volume includes a synopsis, general index, special index for various military divisions, and background information on how these documents were collected and published. Accompanied by an atlas. |
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... soon be en route for its destination . Superintendent Coffin estimates the per diem expense of subsisting these Indians at 15 cents each . An estimate furnished to me by Cap- tain Turner , chief of the commissary department at Fort ...
... soon be en route for its destination . Superintendent Coffin estimates the per diem expense of subsisting these Indians at 15 cents each . An estimate furnished to me by Cap- tain Turner , chief of the commissary department at Fort ...
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... soon as they eat . Means should be taken at once to have the horses which lie dead in every direction through the camp and on the side of the river removed and burned , lest the first few warm days breed a pestilence amongst them . Why ...
... soon as they eat . Means should be taken at once to have the horses which lie dead in every direction through the camp and on the side of the river removed and burned , lest the first few warm days breed a pestilence amongst them . Why ...
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... soon as the condition of these people is made known to them hasten to pro- vide for their wants , especially so when it is considered that these very necessities are the result of a failure on the part of the United States to meet her ...
... soon as the condition of these people is made known to them hasten to pro- vide for their wants , especially so when it is considered that these very necessities are the result of a failure on the part of the United States to meet her ...
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... soon as they like . We can afford it quite as well as they can . We have five times as many prisoners of all grades as they have . Considering their condition the rebels try to carry things with quite too high a hand . They have at all ...
... soon as they like . We can afford it quite as well as they can . We have five times as many prisoners of all grades as they have . Considering their condition the rebels try to carry things with quite too high a hand . They have at all ...
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... write this , as it may be in Detroit as soon as you are so you can understand to what I refer in my dispatch . Yours , most respectfully , WM . S. PIERSON . FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL , New York , June 19 , 42 PRISONERS OF WAR AND STATE , ETC.
... write this , as it may be in Detroit as soon as you are so you can understand to what I refer in my dispatch . Yours , most respectfully , WM . S. PIERSON . FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL , New York , June 19 , 42 PRISONERS OF WAR AND STATE , ETC.
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ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE arrested Assistant Adjutant-General August authority Brig Brigadier-General Camp Butler Camp Chase Camp Douglas Capt Captain captured cartel Cavalry charge citizens Colonel Third Infantry commanding officer Commissary-General of Prisoners Confederate confined Detroit duty E. M. STANTON enemy exchange of prisoners flag of truce Fort Delaware Fort Lafayette Fort Monroe furnished G. W. RANDOLPH Government Governor guard HALLECK HDQRS HEADQUARTERS ARMY HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT honor inclose Inclosure indorsement instant instructions John July July 12 June letter Lieutenant Major-General MCCLELLAN Missouri Monroe oath of allegiance obedient servant October OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL Ohio parole paroled prisoners Pennsylvania Volunteers persons prisoners of war provost-marshal Provost-Marshal-General quartermaster rebel received Regiment released respectfully Richmond Saint Louis Second Lieut Secretary Secretary of War sent September soldiers surgeon take the oath taken Tennessee THOMAS troops U. S. Army Vicksburg Virginia WAR DEPARTMENT Washington WILLIAM HOFFMAN York Volunteers