796 Series II Volume IV- Serial 117 - Prisoners of War
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MILITARY PRISON, Alton, Ill., [July 1,(?)] 1862.
General S. PRICE,
Commanding First Division, Western Department, C. S. Army.
DEAR GENERAL: We, the undersigned, members of the C. S. military corps and citizens of the Confederate States of America, respectfully ask through our Government to immediately consider separately and collectively our situations as prisoners of war, now held as criminals by the United States Government and incarcerated in the Alton Penitentiary for executing the orders of the Confederate Government as directed by her commissioned officers. Our treatment by the Federal authorities is and has been of such a nature that we deem it absolutely necessary to appeal to our Government to throw around us her safeguard and relieve us from the horrors of a long imprisonment and the execution of our sentences. Subjected to great indignity, basely insulted by fiendish outlaws, tortured by threats of death and punished with a felon's decree, by being shut up in a cell day and night for boldly assisting the Government we love in existing the encroachments of a bloodthirsty mobocracy-after undergoing this fiery ordeal we firmly believe we merit from the Confederate States Government her fullest protection and that cognizance should be taken of our cases at the earliest possible moment, With the earnestness of much wronged citizens and soldiers we append to this the names* of--
ABSALOM HICKS,
Captain.
JOHN C. TOMPKINS.
JAMES W. BARNES.
JAS. P. SNEDICOR,
Captain Recruits.
T. M. SMITH.
A. R. TOMPKINS,
Lieutenant.
GEORGE H. CUNNINGHAM.
R. B. CROWDER.
MATTHEW THOMPSON,
Captain Recruits.
HENRY W. WILLING,
Lieutenant.
OWEN C. HICKAM.
THOS. S. FOSTER,
Surgeon in Harris' Division, Missouri State Guard.
JOHN W. OWEN,
Recruit.
JAMES STOUT.
WILLIAM J. FORSHEY.
JOHN PATTON.
FREDERICKSBURG, July 2, 1862.
Honorable G. W. RANDOLPH, Secretary of War.
SIR: The undersigned, citizens of Fredericksburg, have obtained information that Brigadier-General Reynolds, of the U. S. Army, is among the prisoners of war captured by our forces in the recent glorious
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*For the trial and conviction of all these men as guerrillas, &c., see Vol. I, this Series, p. 282 et seq.
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