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17,141 lettersNew Orleans, La., February 8, 1865. Brig. Gen. N. B. BUFORD, Commanding District of Eastern Arkansas, Helena, Ark. : GENERAL: I am directed by the major-general commanding to acknowledge the…
Boston Harbor, February 8, 1865. Capt. WRIGHT RIvEs, U.S. Army, Headquarters Department of the Hast, New York City: SIR: I have the honor to report that Capt. Frank Battle, Wheeler’s…
Washington, D. C., February 8, 1865. Brig. Gen. H. E. PAINE, 37 Bleecker Street, New York City: l GENERAL: Major-General Halleck, Chief of Staff U. S. Army, directs me to…
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…
Washington, D. C., February 7, 1865. Brig. Gen. S. P. CARTER, Provost-Marshal-General, Dept. of East Tenn., Knoxville, Tenn.: GENERAL: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter…
HEADQUARTERS WESTâS BUILDINGS HOSPITAL, Baltimore, Md., February 6, 1865. Surg. A. CHAPEL, U.S. Volunteers, Commanding Hospital: Str: I have the honor to submit the following report of the condition of…
New York Harbor, February 6, 1868. COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS, Washington City, D. C.: SIR: In compliance with paragraph 12 of circular from the Commissary-General of Prisoners, dated Washington, D. ©.,…
Washington, February 27, 1865. Approved. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. WASHINGTON, February 6, 1865. Lieutenant-General GRANT: Will the prisoners who are to be forwarded for exchange be released on…
SPECIAL ORDERS, ) HEADQUARTERS U. S5. FORCES, February 3, 1865. JOHNSON’S ISLAND AND SANDUSKY, No. 34, \ Johnson’s Island, Ohio, February 3, 1865. * * * * * * *…
Johnsows Island, Ohio, February 5, 1865. SIR: I have the honor to submit the following inspection report of the condition of the prisoners of war at this station for the…
February 5, 1865. ; Elmira, N. Y., February 5, 1865. Brig. Gen. WILLIAM HOFFMAN, Commissary-General of Prisoners, Washington, D. C.: GENERAL: Your telegram of the 4th instant, directing the preparation…
Washington, D. C., February 4, 1865. Brig. Gen. H. E. PAINE, U.S. Volunteers, New York, N. Y.: GENERAL: I have the honor to inclose herewith requisition for clothing required for…
Washington, D. O., February 4, 1865. GENERAL: Your letter of the 2d instant, requesting to be informed of the number of prisoners at the several stations, to enable General Beall…
Helena, Ark., February 3, 1865. SIR: Your letter of the 21st ultimo is received. One of the prisoners named, J. G. Smith, was sent to Northern prisons via Cairo some…
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 said to be in close…
Helena, Ark., February 3, 1865. Lieut. Col. O. T. CHRISTENSEN, Assistant Adjutant-General : SIR: About the 1st of May, [1864,] my troops captured First Lieut. T. O. Casteel, First Arkansas…
February 2, 1865. Columbia, S. 0., February 2, 1865. Capt. O. MORFIT, Assistant Quartermaster, Richmond, Va. : CAPTATN: Capt. H. A. M. Henderson, late commanding the prison at Cahaba, Ala.,…
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 Hood from the general commanding…
Chattanooga, February 4, 1865. Respectfully forwarded. JAMES B. STEEDMAN, Major-General, Commanding. * See January 27, p. 136.
Boston Harbor, February 2, 1865. SIR: In pursuance of instructions received from the Navy Department the officers and seamen of the insurgent steamer Florida were released yesterday, the 1st instant,…