W. S. Winder to IG. Szymanski, February 2, 1865
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., informs me that he has $700 U. S. Treasury notes
* See Thomas to Hood, January 13, p. 64. tSee p. 181.
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belonging to prisoners on which he has advanced them money, and wishes to know what is to be done with it. I have written him that the Quartermaster-General buys them at five for one, and that you were the authorized agent of the Quartermaster-General.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
SHREVEPORT, LA., February 2, 1865.
Col. IG. SZYMANSKI,
Commissioner for Exchange, Department of Trans- Mississippi :
COLONEL: I wish to call your attention to the fact that when a Confederate officer dies in a Federal prison possessed of mouey, neither
his friends nor heirs are allowed to use or derive any benefit from it,
but the amount of which he died possessed is said to be forwarded to
Washington, D. C., to be placed to the credit of a prison fund. What