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17,141 lettersNew Orleans, La., January 29, 1863. GENERAL: By direction of the major-general commanding you will please forward a copy of the following communication by flag of truce to an outpost…
January 29, 1865. SEVENTY-FOURTH U.S. COLORED INFANTRY, January 29, 1865. COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS: SIR: I have the honor to submit the following inspection report of the condition of the prisoners…
Chicago, IUl., January 29, 1865. Col. B. J. SWEET, Highth Regt. Veteran Reserve Corps, Comdg. Post of Chicago: SIR: I have the honor to submit the following inspection report of…
Johnson’s Island, Ohio, January 29, 1865. Col. CHARLES W. HILL, 128th Ohio Vol. Infty., Comdg. U. S. Forces, Johnson’s Island, Ohio: SIR: I have the honor to submit the following…
January 29, 1865. January 29, 1865. Brig. Gen. A. SCHOEPF, Commanding Post: Str: I have the honor to submit the following inspection report of the condition of the prisoners of…
New York Harbor, January 29, 1865. Lieut. Col. MARTIN BURKE, Commanding Fort Lafayette : SIR: Ã have the honor to submit the following inspection report of the condition of the…
New Orleans, La., January 28, 1865. COLONEL: I beg leave to call the attention of the major-general commanding to the inclosed list of rebel officers, prisoners of war, confined at…
Louisville, Ky., January 28, 1865. SIR: Ihave the honor to submit the following inspection report of the condition of the prisoners of war at this station for the week ending…
Boston Harbor, January 28, 1865. Maj. H. A. ALLEN, Commanding Fort Warren: SIR: I have the honor to submit the following inspection report of the condition of the prisoners of…
City Point, Va., February 7, 1865. Respectfully returned. No stipulation has been entered into between Judge Ould and myself authorizing contributions to Confederate prisoners of war from friends within our…
Near Florence, S. O., January 26, 1865. Col. H. FORNO, Inspector Military Prisons, South Carolina : COLONEL: I have the honor to state that the post commissary is issuing the…
Washington, D. C., January 27, 1865. Col. B. F. TrAOY, Commanding Depot Prisoners of War, Elmira, N. Y.: COLONEL: I have the honor, by direction of the Commissary-General of Prisoners,…
Columbia, S. C., January 26, 1865. General S. COOPER, Adjutant and Inspector General, Richmond : GENERAL: The Federal prisoners of war at all the prisons are suffering very much for…
Louisville, Ky., January 26, 1865. Maj. Gen. JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE: Str: Your communication of the 12th instant, addressed to the commanding officer U. S. forces, Knoxville, Tenn., has been referred…
OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS, Washington, D. C., January 26, 1865. Col. A. A. STEVENS, Commanding Camp Morton, Indianapolis, Ind. : COLONEL: In reply to communication forwarded by you on the…
Boston Harbor, January 26, 1865. Brig. Gen. H. W. WESSELLS, Commissary-General of Prisoners, Washington, D. C.: SIR: I have the honor to inclose herewith copy of a letter* received from…
January 26, 1865. No. 4. Cincinnati, Ohio, January 26, 1865. Before a general court-martial which convened at Cincinnati, Ohio, January 17, 1865, pursuant to Special Orders, Nos. 212, 250, and…
Washington, D. C., January 26, 1865. AMOS PILSBURY, Superintendent Penitentiary, Albany, N. Y.: Str: In pursuance of instructions received from the Secretary of War I am directed by the Commissary-General…
Wheeling, W. Va., January 25, 1865. Brig. Gen. H. W. WESSELLS, Commissary-General of Prisoners, Washington, D. O.: GENERAL: Upon the receipt of Special Orders, No. 17, from your office, I…
Columbia, S. O., January 24, 1865. General S. COOPER, Adjutant and Inspector General, Richmond, Va.: GENERAL: I hope you will not consider me troublesome on the subject of the safety…