365 Series II Volume IV- Serial 117 - Prisoners of War
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ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, August 9, 1862.
Colonel WILLIAM HOFFMAN, Commissary-General of Prisoners:
Send with all detachments of prisoners lists in duplicate. Discharge all who take oath of allegiance and send complete lists of them to this place. Governor Johnson has been telegraphed to know whether the Tennessee prisoners who take the oath shall be sent there or released where they now are. Side-arms, not pistols, of prisoners taken at Fort Donelson will be sent to the place near Vicksburg where the exchange is to be made.
L. THOMAS,
Adjutant-General.
ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, August 9, 1862.
Major H. S. BURTON,
Commanding Fort Delaware, New Castle, Del.:
Administer the oath of allegiance to the prisoners left behind for that purpose; discharge them and send list of them here. Send the French privateers men under a proper escort with any other prisoners of war well enough, to Fort Monroe to report to General Dix.
L. THOMAS,
Adjutant-General.
OFFICER COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS, Detroit, Mich., August 9, 1862.
Colonel S. BURBANK,
Thirteenth Infantry, U. S. Army, Commanding, Cincinnati, Ohio:
COLONEL: The three prisoners referred to in your letter of the 5th instant must remain where they are for the present or they must be taken charge of at Newport Barracks. If the expected exchange of prisoners takes place they will be exchanged with the rest, if not they will be ordered to one of the prison camps. Please send me their names with their rank, regiment and company and when and where captured. Please send me the charges against James R. Hallam, H. D. Helm and Thomas L. Jones, political prisoners recently sent to Camp Chase.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
W. HOFFMAN,
Colonel Third Infantry, Commissary-General of Prisoners.
OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS, Detroit, Mich., August 9, 1862.
Captain H. W. FREEDLEY, Third Infantry, U. S. Army.
CAPTAIN: You will proceed immediately to Camp Butler, Springfield, Ill, and prepare the prisoners there to be removed to such point as may be designated for exchange. All who wish it are permitted to take the oath of allegiance to the United States and on doing so they will be discharged. For this purpose complete lists of them will be prepared, one for the Adjutant-General at Washington and one for this
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