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their being opened and examined and that would cause too much labor to clerks in charge of the post-office.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
W. HOFFMAN,
Colonel Third Infantry, Commissary-General of Prisoners.
OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,
Detroit, Mich., July 15, 1862.
Captain J. HANDY, Prisoner of War, Sandusky, Ohio.
SIR; Your letter of the 7th* is received. It appears by the papers accompanying your letter that you have served as a medical officer by authority of the medical director, but it appears also that you were a captain in the line, and as the medical director is a subordinate your services in his, department must be looked on as only temporary and you were liable at any time to be recalled to your appropriate duties. Under this view of the case I do not feel at liberty to class you with medical officers. Other cases similar to yours have been laid before the Secretary of War and if the decision is favorable to you I will inform you. Your order is herewith returned.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
W. HOFFMAN,
Colonel Third Infantry, Commissary-General of Prisoners.
FORT WARREN, Boston Harbor, July 15, 1862.
Colonel WILLIAM HOFFMAN,
Commissary-General of Prisoners, Detroit, Mich.
COLONEL: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 12th asking for a list of prisoners of war taken by the Army of the Potomac on the Peninsula. On the 10th instant I forwarded to you a list of 100 prisoners of war (received at this post on the 9th) with such information as I received with them from Fort Columbus, New York Harbor. I have no official information as to the time or place of their capture. It embraces all that I have not before reported.
I am, colonel, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
J. DIMICK,
Colonel First Artillery and Brevet Colonel, Commanding Post.
OFFICE PROVOST-MARSHAL-GENERAL,
Saint Louis, July 15, 1862.
Colonel WILLIAM HOFFMAN,
Commissary-General of Prisoners, Detroit, Mich.
SIR: I have the honor herewith to transmit duplicate copies* of roll of prisoners of war confined in Gratiot Street Prison in this city up to July 10, 1862. A consolidated return of all prisoners of war confined in the various hospitals and stations in this district will be forwarded as soon as the reports are all in.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
BERNARD G. FARRAR.
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* Omitted.
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