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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... directed at the small percentage of ordinary and continuous perpetration of crime , while the latter is directed at sudden and extensive uprisings against the Govern- ment , which at most will succeed or fail in no great length of time ...
... directed at the small percentage of ordinary and continuous perpetration of crime , while the latter is directed at sudden and extensive uprisings against the Govern- ment , which at most will succeed or fail in no great length of time ...
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... directed by the commissary - general of prisoners to say in reply to your communication of June 8 , 1863 , * that the scale of rations giving five pounds of green or four pounds of ground coffee to 100 rations was intended for the ...
... directed by the commissary - general of prisoners to say in reply to your communication of June 8 , 1863 , * that the scale of rations giving five pounds of green or four pounds of ground coffee to 100 rations was intended for the ...
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... directed by Lieutenant - General Smith to say no quarter should be shown them . If taken prisoners , however , they should be turned over to the executive authorities of the States in which they may be captured , in obedience to the ...
... directed by Lieutenant - General Smith to say no quarter should be shown them . If taken prisoners , however , they should be turned over to the executive authorities of the States in which they may be captured , in obedience to the ...
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... directed him to ask Colonel Donaldson to inquire for the whereabouts of the pris oners . I inclose a letter containing a small amount of Confederate money belonging to a rebel soldier who died at Pittsburg for you to return through Mr ...
... directed him to ask Colonel Donaldson to inquire for the whereabouts of the pris oners . I inclose a letter containing a small amount of Confederate money belonging to a rebel soldier who died at Pittsburg for you to return through Mr ...
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... directed by the General - in - Chief . I do not think that an additional notice need be published on our part now . Other declarations of exchange will soon be made and then it can be done . No exchanges of civilians can be made at ...
... directed by the General - in - Chief . I do not think that an additional notice need be published on our part now . Other declarations of exchange will soon be made and then it can be done . No exchanges of civilians can be made at ...
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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