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46,149 lettersHEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF EASTERN ARKANSAS, Helena, Ark., February 3, 1865. Brig. Gen. H. W. WESSELLS, Commissary-General of Prisoners : SIR: Your letter of the 21st ultimo is received. One of…
OFFICE OF COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS, Washington, D. C., January 21, 1865. GENERAL: I am authorized to request that the following-named officers and enlisted men of the rebel army, who are…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF EASTERN ARKANSAS, Helena, Ark., February 3, 1865. SIR: About the 1st of May, [1864,] my troops captured First Lieut. T. O. Casteel, First Arkansas Cavalry; First Lieut.…
Chattanooga, Tenn. Chattanooga, Tenn., February 3, 1865. Brig. Gen. L. THOMAS, Adjutant-General U. S. Army, Washington, D. O.: GENERAL: I have the honor to forward inclosed the statement of an…
SHREVEPORT, L. A. SHREVEPORT, L. A., February 2, 1865. Col. I. G. SZYMANSKI, Commissioner for Exchange, Department of Trans-Mississippi : COLONEL: I wish to call your attention to the fact…
HDQRS. C. S. MIL. PRISONS EAST OF MISSISSIPPI RIVER, February 2, 1865. Columbia, S. 0., February 2, 1865. Capt. O. MORFIT, Assistant Quartermaster, Richmond, Va. : CAPTATN: Capt. H. A.…
Columbia, S. C. Columbia, S. C., February 2, 1865. Capt. H. A. M. HENDERSON, Cahaba, Ala. : CAPTAIN: Your letter of January 13 has been received, and I am directed…
AUGUSTA AUGUSTA, February 2, 1863. General S. COOPER, Adjutant and Inspector General: Prisoners of war at Florence should be sent at once to Soufhwest Georgia, or in its vicinity, where…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, Nashville, February 14, 1565. Respectfully forwarded to the Adjutant-General of the Army for information and action of War Department, with copy of letter to General…
Chattanooga, Tenn. Chattanooga, Tenn., February 2, 1865. Brig. Gen. L. THOMAS, Adjutant-General U. S. Army, Washington, D. C.: GENERAL: I have the honor to report the following: On the 20th…
HEADQUARTERS FORT WARREN, Boston Harbor, February 2, 1865. Hon. GIDEON WELLES, Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D. 0.: SIR: In pursuance of instructions received from the Navy Department the officers…
Raleigh Raleigh, February 1, 1865. General BRADLEY T. JOHNSON, Salisbury, N. C.: Most distressing accounts reach me of the suffering and destitution of the Yankee prisoners under your charge. If…
COLUMBIA COLUMBIA, February 1, 1865. General S. COOPER, Adjutant and Inspector General: I cannot [get] along with present arrangement of Subsistence Department. Must have an assistant commissary for the prisoners…
Raleigh Raleigh, February 1, 1865. Hon. J. A. SEDDON, Secretary of War: DEAR SIR: I beg leave to call your attention to the condition of the Federal prisoners of war…
Chattanooga Chattanooga, February 1, 1865. Assistant Inspector-General, Department of the Cumberland : COLONEL: In obedience to your order I make the following report of an inspection of the prisons of…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, z Eastport, February 1, 1865. General J. B. Hoop, C. S. Army, Commanding Confederate Forces : GENERAL: On the evening of the 1st of November,…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SAVANNAH, Savannah, Ga., February 1, 1865. ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-GENERAL, Headquarters Department of the South: My medical director yesterday inspected the condition of the rebel prisoners confined at Fort…
HEADQUARTERS FORT WARREN, Boston Harbor, February 1, 1865. Brig. Gen. H. W. WESSELLS, Commissary-General of Prisoners, Washington, D. O.: SIR: I have the honor to inclose herewith copy of letter*…
SPECIAL ORDERS, ) WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL’S OFFICE, February 1, 1865. No. 51. Washington, February 1, 1865. * + * * * * * 61. Bvt. Brig. Gen. William Hoffman,…
HEADQUARTERS FLORENCE MILITARY PRISON, Near Florence, S. C., January 31, 1865. Capt. W. S. WINDER, Assistant Adjutant-General: CAPTAIN: I have the honor to state that the ration now being issued…