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46,149 lettersJohnsows Island Johnsows Island, January 8, 1865. Brig. Gen. H. W. WESSELLS, Inspector and Com. Gen. of Prisoners, Washington, D. C.: GENERAL: I have the honor to submit the following…
HEADQUARTERS SUPERINTENDENT OF PRISON, Johnson’s Island, Ohio, January 8, 1865. Col. CHARLES W. HILL, 128th Ohio Vol. Infty., Comdg. U. S. Forces, Johnson’s Island, Ohio: SIR: I have the honor…
HEADQUARTERS FORT LAFAYETTE, New York Harbor, January 8, 1865. Lieut. Col. MARTIN BURKE, Commanding Fort Lafayette, New York Harbor: SIR: I have the honor to submit the following inspection report…
HEADQUARTERS MILITARY PRISON, Elmira, N. Y., January 8, 1865. Col. B. F. TRACY, Commanding Post: SIR: I have the honor to submit the following inspection report of the condition of…
OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS, Washington, D. O., January 11, 1865. Respectfully referred to Col. A. J. Johnson, commanding Rock Island, for remarks. $ l By order of Brig. Gen. H.…
OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF SUBSISTENCE, January 11, 1865. January 11, 1865, Respectfully referred to Brig. Gen. H. W. Wessells, CommissaryGeneral of Prisoners, with the suggestion that if, after a full and…
HEADQUARTERS WESTS BUILDINGS HOSPITAL, Baltimore, Md., January 7, 1865. Surg. A. CHAPEL, U. S. Volunteers, Commanding Hospital: SIR: I have the honor to transmit the following inspection report of the…
OFFICE ASSISTANT COMMISSARY OF PRISONERS, January 7, 1865. January 7, 1865. Col. E. W. HOLMSTED?, Commanding Post: SIR: I have the honor to submit the following inspection report of the…
HEADQUARTERS FORREST’S CAVALRY CORPS, In the Field, January 6, 1865. Major-General DANA, Commanding U. S. Forces, Memphis, Tenn. : GENERAL: I have the honor herewith to transmit copies of communications…
OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS, Washington, D. C., January 10, 1865. Respectfully submitted to the Secretary of War for consideration. H. W. WESSELLS,[Second indorsement. }WAR DEPARTMENT, January 12, 1865.Returned to the…
HEADQUARTERS FORT LAFAYETTE, New York Harbor, January 6, 1865. Brig. Gen. H. W. WESSELLS, Commissary-General of Prisoners, Washington, D. 0.: SIR: Brigadier-General Beall, O, S. Army, was turned over to…
OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS, Washington, D. C., January 6, 1865. Bvt. Brig. Gen. JAMES BARNES, Commanding District of Saint Mary’s, Point Lookout, Md.: GENERAL: I have the honor, by direction…
CIRCULAR. HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF THE GULF, Mobile, October 15, 1864. The following-named negroes are employed by engineer corps at Mobile, Ala. The owners are notified in order to receive the…
HEADQUARTERS 111TH U.S. COLORED INFANTRY, Nashville, Tenn., January 5, 1865. Maj. Gen. B. F. BUTLER, Commanding Department of East Virginia: SIR: I have the honor to inform you that I…
Knoxville, Tenn. Knoxville, Tenn., January 5, 1865. Maj. Gen. E. A. HITCHCOCK, Commissioner for Exchange of Prisoners, Washington, D. 0.: GENERAL: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of…
Nashville, Tenn. Nashville, Tenn., January 5, 1865. Brig. Gen. H. W. WESSELLS, GENERAL: The rebel wounded prisoners in the hospitals at this place and at Franklin are much in want…
OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS, Washington, D. O., January 5, 1865. Commanding Depot Prisoners of War, Elmira, N. Y.: COLONEL: I am directed by the Commissary-General of Prisoners to acknowledge the…
QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL’S OFFICE, January 14, 1865. January 14, 1865, Respectfully returned to Brigadier-General Wessells with information that the requisition referred to within was not received at this office, and with request…
OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS, Washington, D. C., January 7, 1865. Respectfully referred to the Quartermaster-General and attention invited to the statement of commanding officer of the prison camp at Elmira,…
HEADQUARTERS DEPOT PRISONERS OF WAR, Elmira, N. Y., January 5, 1865. Brig. Gen. H. W. WESSELLS, Commissary-General of Prisoners, Washington, D. C.: GENERAL: I have the honor to state that…