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from Richmond to Washington. General Tyler is also here. He will take charge of those paroled at Harper's Ferry and destined for the West. It is very important that all paroled prisoners should be ordered out of town, and I have to request that you will so modify your Special Orders, Nos. 83 and 48, so that Colonel Staunton may command the whole, as it is found the present system works very badly.
I am, sir, &c.,
L. THOMAS,
Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS EIGHTH ARMY CORPS,
Baltimore, September 20, 1862.Brigadier General L. THOMAS,
Adjutant-General U. S. Army, Annapolis, Md.
GENERAL: I have received your dispatch. Orders in anticipation have been given to collect all the prisoners of war and forward them to Annapolis. Brigadier-General White is ordered with the paroled prisoners to Annapolis taken at Harper's Ferry. It was my design to put him in command of all the prisoners. I presume he has arrived. There are 9,000 at Ellicott's Mills. They will leave to-day on foot and will arrive in three or four days, Colonel Maulsby in command, with rations, wagons, &c.
[JOHN E. WOOL,]
Major-General.
ANNAPOLIS, MD., September 20, 1862.
Brigadier General DAN. TYLER, Annapolis, Md.
SIR: By direction of the Secretary of War you will proceed with the paroled prisoners to Camp Douglas and there await further orders.
I am, sir, &c.,
L. THOMAS,
Adjutant-General.
ANNAPOLIS, MD., September 20, 1862.
Colonel J. F. STAUNTON,
Sixty-seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers.
COLONEL: You will immediately direct all the paroled prisoners of war, officers and men, now in this city to repair to the camp near Annapolis, the officers to remain in camp to take charge of their men and to hold themselves in readiness to accompany them when they leave here. You will also take immediate measures to have the men absent from their camp collected and kept embodied.
I am, sir, &c.,
L. THOMAS,
Adjutant-General.
ANNAPOLIS, MD, September 20, 1862.
Colonel J. F. STAUNTON,
Sixty-seven Pennsylvania Vols., Commanding, &c., Annapolis, Md.
SIR: You will take immediate measures to organize the paroled prisoners (about 4,000 in number) into companies and regiments according to their respective States as far as practicable, assigning to them the
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