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ment Virginia Volunteers, is exchanged for Captain Charles J. Whiting, of the Fifth U. S. Cavalry.
Will you please inform General Lee.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JOHN A. DIX,
Major-General.
FORT MONROE, July 28, 1862.
General M. C. Meigs:
The Atlantic, Merrimac and Coatzacoalcos leave to-day for Fort Delaware. Each can carry and cook for 1,000 men. If Captain Gibson gets rid of 3,000 prisoners he ought to be able to spare a company for each vessel. I cannot spare a man. I have not men enough for guard and police duty. Captain Gibson will of course receive the necessary orders from Washington.
JOHN A. DIX,
Major-General.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,
New Orleans, July 28, 1862.Madam Dubois having disobeyed the order of the assistant military commandant to deliver up the keys of the school-house on the corner of Robertson and Bienville streets she will be confined on Ship Island until further orders.
BENJ. F. BUTLER,
Major-General, Commanding.
HEADQUARTERS, Fort Monroe, Va., July 28, 1862.Captain C. W. THOMAS, Assistant Quartermaster, U. S. Army:
Pursuant to instructions received from the Quartermaster-General the major-general commanding directs that you cause the steamers Atlantic Captain D. S. Babcock; Merrimac, Captain F. A. Sampson; Coat-zacoalcos, Captain Jefferson Many, to proceed without delay to Fort Delaware, Del., there to report to Captain Gibson, Second Artillery, commanding at that post, for the purpose of receiving such prisoners of war as he may place on board and to return with such prisoners to this post, reporting their arrival to the major-general commanding.
I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
D. T. VAN BUREN,Assistant Adjutant-General.
OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,
Detroit, Mich., July 28, 1862.
General E. L. VIELE, Commanding, Norfolk, Va.
SIR: The Secretary of War directs that Dr. W. H. Newell, a prisoner of war, be unconditionally discharged under General Orders, Numbers 60, current series. As the doctor was paroled by you it is proper that this order should pass through your hands.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
W. HOFFMAN,
Colonel Third Infantry, Commissary-General of Prisoners.
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