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…