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17,141 lettersHEADQUARTERS 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…
OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS, January 4, 1865. ‘ ty Washington, D. C., January 4, 1865. Maj. Gen. B. F. BUTLER, Commissioner for Exchange, Fort Monroe, Va.: GENERAL: By authority of…
NASHVILLE, TENN. NASHVILLE, TENN., January 3, 1865. Maj. WILLIAM INNES, Assistant Commissioner, Organizing U. K. Colored Troops: MAJOR: The following report of my capture and subsequent attempted murder is respectfully…
Saint Louis, Mo. Saint Louis, Mo., January 3, 1865. Col. J. H. BAKER, Provost-Marshal-General, Department of the Missouri: SIR: I have the honor to submit the following inspection report of…
HEADQUARTERS ROCK ISLAND BARRACKS, Rock Island, Ill., November 23, 1864. Mr. EDITOR: In your issue of the 21st instant I notice an article on the treatment of prisoners of war…
OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS, Washington, D. O., January 5, 1865. Maj. Gen. E. R. S. CANBY, GENERAL: I have the honor to inform you that the necessary orders have been…
WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C., January 3, 1865. The Secretary of War directs that you will suspend General Beall’s parole and place him in Fort Lafayette as a prisoner of…
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, January 3, 1865. . Washington, D. C., January 3, 1865. GENERAL: Whenever General Beall is ready to make distributions at any prison camp where there are…
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, January 3, 1865. Lieutenant-General GRANT, City Point, Va.: GENERAL: In compliance with the instructions of the Secretary of War, to transmit to you all papers…