751 Series II Volume IV- Serial 117 - Prisoners of War
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Ferry. They are anxious to take the field with me and I desire very much to have them. I will thank you to inform me what their prospects are for exchange. My address for the present is Chicago, Ill.
JULIUS WHITE,
Brigadier-General, U. S. Volunteers.
WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, November 24, 1862.
Governor SALOMON, Madison, Wis.:
The Secretary of War directs me to say that you were informed in answer to your telegrams respecting the disposition of the prisoners arrested by you that the subject was under the consideration of the President, and that as soon as his decision was made it would be communicated to you. The matter will probably be disposed of at Cabinet meeting to-morrow.
In the meantime the Secretary sees no objection to your liberating on parole such of the prisoners as you deem proper and turning over to General Pope's custody such as require to be held I restraint. the general will be instructed to take them in charge.
C. P. BUCKINGHAM,
Brigadier-General and Assistant Adjutant-General.
WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, D. C., November 24, 1862.
COMMANDING OFFICER, Fort Delaware, Del.:
None of the prisoners confined at your post will be released under order of the War Department of the 22nd instant without special instructions from the Department.
By order of the Secretary of War:
E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
(Copies to commanding officers Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, and Fort Lafayette, New York Harbor).
OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,
Washington, D. C., November 24, 1862.
Colonel J. P. TAYLOR,
Commissary-General of Subsistence, Washington, D. C.
COLONEL: The Secretary of War directs that no payments for commutation of rations to paroled or exchanged prisoners of war for the time they were held by the rebels be made except on accounts, or rolls, which have been submitted for the approbation of the Secretary of War through this office.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
W. HOFFMAN,
Colonel Third Infantry, Commissary-General of Prisoners.
OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,
Washington, D. C., November 24, 1862.
Colonel W. W. DUFFIELD,
Ninth Michigan Volunteers, Detroit, Mich.
COLONEL: Your letter of the 15th is just received through General Robertson, adjutant-general, and I hasten to reply. In the general orders
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