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17,141 lettersHEADQUARTERS 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…
Columbia, S. C. Columbia, S. C., January 31, 1865. Captain SENN: I am instructed by General Winder to request that you grant permission to Captain McChesney, a prisoner of war…
HDQRS. MIL. PRISONS EAST OF MISSISSIPPI RIVER, Columbia, S. O., January 31, 1865. Captain WITHERSPOON, Assistant Commissary of Subsistence, Columbia, $. 0.: CAPTAIN: The brigadier-general commanding desires me to say…
Columbia, S. C. Columbia, S. C., January 31, 1865. General S. COOPER, Adjutant and Inspector General : GENERAL: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your telegram directing the release…
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, WAR DEPARTMENT, Richmond, Va., January 31, 1865. General BRADLEY T. JOHNSON, Salisbury, N. O.: I have later information that a raid is about to be made…
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, WAR DEPARTMENT, Richmond, Va., January 31, 1865. General BRADLEY T. JOHNSON, Salisbury, N. C.: I have information, probably correct, that within the next ten or twenty…
OFFICE OF AGENT OF EXCHANGE, New Orleans, January 31, 1865. Assistant Agent of Exchange, Mobile, Ala. : MAJOR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of…
HEADQUARTERS U.S. FORCES, Morganza, La., January 31, 1865. Agent of Exchange, Hdqrs. Mil. Div. of W. Miss., New Orleans, La. : COLONEL: [have the honor to report that I succeeded…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF NORTHERN ALABAMA, Decatur, January 31, 1865. GENERAL: I have the honor to inform you that the proposition for exchange has been accepted by the provost-marshal-general, as will…