The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate ArmiesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1899 |
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... give your article of the 21st instant the notice it seems to merit . Owing to the fact that your paper has a wide circulation among the relatives of a large number of the prisoners , it is desirable that the antidote should quickly ...
... give your article of the 21st instant the notice it seems to merit . Owing to the fact that your paper has a wide circulation among the relatives of a large number of the prisoners , it is desirable that the antidote should quickly ...
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... give them , as near as possible , the same quantity and quality of provisions that the fiendish rebels give our men ; and instead of a constant issue of clothing to them , I would let them wear 2 R R - SERIES II , VOL VIII their rags ...
... give them , as near as possible , the same quantity and quality of provisions that the fiendish rebels give our men ; and instead of a constant issue of clothing to them , I would let them wear 2 R R - SERIES II , VOL VIII their rags ...
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... give such orders as in your judgment may be suitable and proper . Very respectfully , your obedient servant , E. A. HITCHCOCK , Major - General of Volunteers . P. S. The papers inclosed with this belong to the War Office and to my own ...
... give such orders as in your judgment may be suitable and proper . Very respectfully , your obedient servant , E. A. HITCHCOCK , Major - General of Volunteers . P. S. The papers inclosed with this belong to the War Office and to my own ...
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... gives the lie to all such statements , especially of starvation , as , generally speaking , a more robust set of men ... give them publicity because the charac- ter of the writer is such that we have not the slightest doubt that her ...
... gives the lie to all such statements , especially of starvation , as , generally speaking , a more robust set of men ... give them publicity because the charac- ter of the writer is such that we have not the slightest doubt that her ...
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... give me a notice of a week or ten days as to supplies sent to Charleston . Respectfully , your obedient servant , [ Indorsement . ] RO . OULD , Agent of Exchange . HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES , City Point , Va . , January ...
... give me a notice of a week or ten days as to supplies sent to Charleston . Respectfully , your obedient servant , [ Indorsement . ] RO . OULD , Agent of Exchange . HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES , City Point , Va . , January ...
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Adjutant ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE Agent of Exchange Andersonville April arrest Assistant Adjutant-General Assistant Agent Beall Brevet Brig Brigadier-General Butler Camp Capt Captain captured Cavalry charge citizens City Point Clay Colonel Commanding Commissary-General of Prisoners commission Confederate Davis delivered E. D. TOWNSEND E. M. STANTON exchange of prisoners February February 20 Federal prisoners Fort Delaware Fort Monroe Fort Warren forwarded furnished Government guard H. W. HALLECK HDQRS Henry Wirz HOFFMAN hospital inclosed Inclosure indorsement instant January John JOHNSON Johnson's Island letter Lieut Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Lieutenant-General Grant Major-General March Military Division military prison Monroe MULFORD obedient servant OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL Ohio Ould President prisoners of war rebel prisoners rebellion received Regiment released request Respectfully referred Richmond Secretary Secretary of War sent sick soldiers stockade Surgeon U. S. Army U. S. Colored U. S. GRANT U. S. Volunteers United Veteran Reserve Corps WAR DEPARTMENT West Mississippi Winder Wirz
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Page 665 - I, , do solemnly swear, in presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Union of the States thereunder...
Page 794 - ... shall, if captured, be put to death, or be otherwise punished at the discretion of the court.
Page 574 - ... to amnesty and pardon thereunder, by reason of their participation directly or by implication in said rebellion, and continued hostility to the government of the United States...
Page 573 - All who have engaged in any way in treating otherwise than lawfully as prisoners of war persons found in the United States service as officers, soldiers, seamen, or in other capacities. Seventh. All persons who have been or are absentees from the United States for the purpose of aiding the rebellion.
Page 572 - AD 1864, did, with the object to suppress the existing rebellion, to induce all persons to return to their loyalty, and to restore the authority of the United States, issue proclamations offering amnesty and pardon to certain persons who had, directly or by implication, participated in the said rebellion ; and Whereas many persons who had so engaged in said rebellion have, since the issuance of said...
Page 797 - The enemy might almost literally have felt that it is " a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Page 794 - I shall, unless in your wisdom you deem some other course more expedient, deliver to the several State authorities all commissioned officers of the United States that may hereafter be captured by our forces in any of the States embraced in the proclamation, that they may be dealt with in accordance with the laws of those States providing for the punishment of criminals engaged in exciting servile insurrection.
Page 344 - For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Page 127 - Cummings, to be hung by the neck until he is dead, at such time and place as the commanding general may direct, two-thirds of the members of the court concurring therein.
Page 553 - HON. EM STANTON, Secretary of War. SIR : — I have the honor to submit...