Letter

G. Blagden to 13 R R—SERIES Ii, VOL VIII, February 7, 1865

Washington, D. C., February 7, 1865.

Col. C. W. HILL, Commanding Johnson’s Island, Ohio:

COLONEL: The Commissary-General of Prisoners directs that any of the following-named rebel officers who may come into your hands be placed in close confinement and immediate notice be sent to this office, they having violated their parole given to Major General Stoneman to report at Knoxville, Tenn., as prisoners of war: D. H. Lewellyn, major and quartermaster; Benjamin Gillespie, surgeon, Provisional Army, C. S.; George N. Eakin, captain and assistant quartermaster; William Johnson, captain and assistant quartermaster; G. S. Feeny, second lieutenant, Provisional Army, C.S.; J. D. Bushong, second lieutenant, Sixty-second Tennessee Volunteers; J. Q. Arnold, captain Company B, Twelfth Tennessee Cavalry; R. A. Williams, captain and assistant commissary of subsistence; Benjamin P. Morrison, captain Company B, Thirty-seventh Virginia Infantry, and Charles H.C. Preston, lieutenant, Company I, Twenty-second Virginia Cavalry.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

Major, Second Mass. Cav., Asst. to Com. Gen. of Prisoners.
13 R R—SERIES Ii, VOL VIII

RICHMOND, February 7, 1863.
Brig. Gen. JOHN H. WINDER,
Commissary- General of Prisoners, Columbia, 8. C.:
SIR: You are doubtless aware that by a recent agreement between

Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Indian Territory, 1861–62. Location: Washington, D. C.. Summary: G. Blagden instructs Colonel C. W. Hill to closely confine specified Confederate officers who violated their parole and to immediately report their capture to the Commissary-General of Prisoners.
Sources
The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 8 View original source ↗