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every year. Rebel flags are thrown from the windows of houses in this city with impunity, and I countermanded the order for arrests.
J. T. BOYLE,
Brigadier-General.
WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, September 15, 1862.
Major-General McCLELLAN:
General Wool has been directed to receive all prisoners turned over to him at Frederick or remove them to Fort Delaware.
H. W. HALLECK,
General-in-Chief.
HEADQUARTERS, Fort Monroe, Va., September 15, 1862.Honorable EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
SIR: Major William H. Ludlow, of my staff, who will hand you this note, has just returned from Aiken's Landing with 5,100 released prisoners, all of whom with the exception of a few hundred may by exchange be made immediately available in the field. I telegraphed to General Halleck that I had undertaken the release on my own responsibility, there being no agent here. His conferences with Mr. Ould were of so much importance that I have though it best he should proceed at once to Washington to see you, General Halleck and General Thomas. I nominated the major to you some ten days ago as my inspector-general, a position he has earned by efficient and valuable services.
I am, very respectfully, yours,
JOHN A. DIX,Major-General.
FORT MONROE, September 15, 1862.
Major-General HALLECK, General-in-Chief:
Five thousand one hundred paroled prisoners have bone to Annapolis. They can be exchanged immediately. Major Ludlow, my aide, who received them, is on his way to Washington to report to you.
JOHN A. DIX,
Major-General.
WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, September 15, 1862.
His Excellency Governor BUCKINGHAM, Hartford, Conn:
A parole given to the Confederates must be respected and the man released if drafted.
By order of the Secretary of War:
C. P. BUCKINGHAM,
Brigadier-General and Assistant-General.
HEADQUARTERS ROLLA DIVISION,
Rolla, Mo., September 15, 1862.[Brigadier General J. M. SCHOFIELD.]
GENERAL: You will perceive by inclosed statement* from Major Galup that the officers who did the killing of prisoners at Waynesville
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* See letter of Glover, September 18, with inclosures, p. 532.
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