765 Series II Volume IV- Serial 117 - Prisoners of War
| Page 765 | CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. -UNION. |
The financial affairs of the prison are quite satisfactory. Economy has been exercised in every department. The fund of the prisoners is ample for every demand that may be made upon it.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
H. W. FREEDLEY,
Captain, Third Infty., Assistant to Commissary General of Prisoners.
OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,
Washington, D. C., November 28, 1862.
General S. R. CURTIS,
Commanding Department of the Missouri, Saint Louis, Mo
DEAR GENERAL: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 22nd instant yesterday. By the same mail I received reports from my assistant, Captain H. W. Freedley, U. S. Army, who had been ordered to make an examination into the state of affairs at the Alton Prison, which represented the place in such an utter state of confusion and disorder that I thought it absolutely necessary to apply to the Secretary of War to have him placed in command. I telegraphed to you to-day to this effect and requested you to detail a guard of 300 or 400 men with no officer of higher rank than captain, so that there would be no conflict of authority. The captain is an energetic and reliable officer and you may rest assured that the command will be well disciplined and the prisoners well guarded and well cared for.
Colonel Hildebrand means well I dare say, but he is wanting in many things essential to such a command.
I am, very respectfully, general, your obedient servant,
W. HOFFMAN,
Colonel Third Infantry, Commissary-General of Prisoners.
OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,
Washington, November 28, 1862.
Captain H. W. FREEDLEY, Indianapolis, Ind.:
After performing the duty assigned to you at Indianapolis proceed to Alton and relieve Colonel Hildebrand in the command of the military prison. General Curtis will detail a guard.
By order of the Secretary of War:
W. HOFFMAN,
Commissary-General of Prisoners.
Please send a copy of the above telegram to Louisville, Ky., care of General Boyle.
OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,
Washington, D. C., November 28, 1862.
Brigadier General R. W. JOHNSON, Louisville, Ky.
GENERAL: Your letter of the 3rd instant addressed to General rosecrans has just been referred to me, and I am glad to inform you that you are included in the exchanges recently arranged at Aiken's
| Page 765 | CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. -UNION. |
- Confederate President Jefferson Davis calls for March 27 to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer.
- Following the Underground Railroad Route By Bicycle
- March is Women's History Month! Read the fascinating accounts of women spies hiding coded messages in women's hair, conductors of the Underground Railroad, soldiers disguised as men, surgeons, and advisors to the President!
- Teachers tackle race, economic disparity and history
- The President's Hymn: 'Give Thanks All Ye People'
- Thanksgiving Day during the Civil War
- Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation in a divided time: ‘one heart and one voice by the whole American People’
- What Abraham Lincoln found reading the Book of Job amid civil war
- Civil War stories on display at Lincoln Highway museum in Unity
- Who was Henry Benning, for whom Fort Benning in Columbus was named?
- Fort Gordon Army Base: Who was John Brown Gordon?
- From the Civil War to the football field, we have been celebrating the wrong values
- History and Healing: Removing Controversial Artifacts from the Civic Landscape
- How to Reframe the Civil War in the Classroom
- Man scores Abraham Lincoln autograph in box of trading cards
- Native Americans' role in the Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln Healed a Divided Nation. We Should Heed His Words Today.
- An escaped slave was the 'Florence Nightingale’ of Indiana's Civil War regiment
- A Southern Democrat survived impeachment trap and came to be in charge of Reconstruction
- New Statue Unveiled In Response To Richmond's Confederate Monuments