Letter
Unknown to Ellet, August 1, 1862
Washington, August 1, 1862.
Colonel ELLET, Ram Fleet, Vicksburg, Miss. :
You will employ such negroes as you require on your boats and send the others who are under your protection to Memphis, to be employed by General Sherman. Your prisoners can be sent to Memphis for trial, and a court-martial can be ordered there for their trial as soon as the
witnesses can be spared. H. W. HALLEOK, Major-General, Commanding.
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in West Tennessee and Mississippi, Pt. 1. Location: Washington. Summary: Major-General Halleck instructs Colonel Ellet to allocate enslaved laborers for boat work or transfer them to Memphis for General Sherman's use, and to send prisoners there for court-martial trials.
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The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 17, Part 1
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