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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... citizens of a loyal State , yet as operating themselves in the rebel interest or more probably as taking advantage of the existing hostilities to engage in raids on their own account and independently of any organized army in the field ...
... citizens of a loyal State , yet as operating themselves in the rebel interest or more probably as taking advantage of the existing hostilities to engage in raids on their own account and independently of any organized army in the field ...
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... citizen for treason under any law whatever , but citizens of the South are liable for that crime under the law of the country as it stands on the statute books of the nation . This is what in the South they wish to set aside under the ...
... citizen for treason under any law whatever , but citizens of the South are liable for that crime under the law of the country as it stands on the statute books of the nation . This is what in the South they wish to set aside under the ...
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... citizens and take or send them as prisoners to Rich- mond in retaliation , as the rebels say , for our arrests of non - combatants and then after collecting a very large number they hope to dictate terms which we now deem absurd and ...
... citizens and take or send them as prisoners to Rich- mond in retaliation , as the rebels say , for our arrests of non - combatants and then after collecting a very large number they hope to dictate terms which we now deem absurd and ...
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... citizens . If nothing better can be done , they must be confined , but a far preferable disposition , when it can be made , is to place them in a situation to render service to the country by useful labor , under the eye of some officer ...
... citizens . If nothing better can be done , they must be confined , but a far preferable disposition , when it can be made , is to place them in a situation to render service to the country by useful labor , under the eye of some officer ...
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... citizen prisoners just arrived from Fort Lafayette , captured by the Navy Department , who are now [ here ] for exchange ; I shall send them by the next steamer . I will send no more citizens to you till you call for them . Very ...
... citizen prisoners just arrived from Fort Lafayette , captured by the Navy Department , who are now [ here ] for exchange ; I shall send them by the next steamer . I will send no more citizens to you till you call for them . Very ...
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Agent of Exchange arrest Assistant Adjutant-General August barracks blankets Brig Brigadier-General Camp Chase Camp Douglas Capt Captain captured cartel Cavalry cells charge citizens City Point clothing Colonel Third Infantry Commanding commissary Commissary-General of Prisoners Commissioner for Exchange communication confined copy December declaration of exchange declared exchanged delivered depot duty E. A. HITCHCOCK E. M. STANTON enemy Exchange of Prisoners Federal Fort Delaware Fort Monroe furnished Government guard HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT herewith honor hospital inclose Inclosure indorsement Infantry and Commissary-General informed instant instructions Johnson's Island July letter Lieut Major-General Monroe negroes November obedient servant October OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL Ohio Ohio penitentiary parole penitentiary Point Lookout prisoners of war rations rebel prisoners received regiment release request Richmond S. A. MEREDITH Secretary Secretary of War sent September sick soldiers surgeon tion troops U. S. Army U. S. forces Vicksburg Volunteers WAR DEPARTMENT Washington WILLIAM HOFFMAN