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He further says that the fact that he did not allude to his conference with the President in his own paper should be regarded as evidence of his view of the impropriety of such a fact being made public. If detained in custody he respectfully begs me to ask that his wife and daughters be permitted to visit him.
JOHN E. WOOL,
Major-General.
CORINTH, July 1, 1862.
Major-General THOMAS, Tuscumbia:
General Buel says he never authorized any person to come to these headquarters and never heard of Lieutenant-Colonel Bennett. Send him a copy of the pretended pass and retain Colonel Bennett.
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H. W. HALLECK,
Major-General.
CORINTH, July 1, 1862.
Brigadier-General SCHOFIELD, Saint Louis, Mo.:
No prisoner of war will be paroled to return to Kentucky, Tennessee or States south of them without an order from these headquarters or from the War Department.
H. W. HALLECK,
Major-General.
HUNTSVILLE, July 1, 1862.
General HALLECK, Corinth:
I warmly recommend the release on parole of Lieutenant William Richardson, Confederate Army, a prisoner of war at Camp Chase. He was wounded at Shiloh but was recently captured while still disabled. He is the nephew of Judge Lane, of this place, who was appointed U. S. judge by Mr. Lincoln and has remained from the first to the last a firm and avowed Union man. He interests himself warmly in the case of Richardson. Please answer.
D. C. BUELL,
Major-General.
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF MISSOURI,
Saint Louis, July 1, 1862.Colonel J. M. GLOVER, Commanding Rolla Division, Rolla, Mo.
COLONEL: The inclosed papers are respectfully referred to you for investigation and report. Please attend to the matter with as little delay as possible. If Major Tompkins is not guilty, as I believed him to be in issuing my order for his arrest, I desire that he be promptly restored to his command and fully exonerated. So far as I am able to judge from his report of June 24 upon which his arrest was based or from that of June 27, which I have received to-day, the shooting of Colonel Best was entirely unjustified by my orders or the customs of war. He does not appear to have been a member of any guerrilla band but a regular soldier of the rebel army on his return home. He may very
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