150 Series II Volume III- Serial 116 - Prisoners of War
| Page 150 | PRISONERS OF WAR AND STATE, ETC. |
or any other place money and clothing? I have money on hand and more expected, but retain it until I hear from you on the subject.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JOHN E. WOOL,
Major - General.
OFFICE COMMISSARY - GENERAL OF PRISONERS,
New York City, November 30, 1861.
General L. THOMAS,
Adjutant - General U. S. Army, Washington, D. C.
GENERAL: It is necessary in order that time may not be lost that I should consult you in person in relation to matters connected with my duties as commissary - general of prisoners, and I respectfully ask to be ordered to Washington for this purpose.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
W. HOFFMAN,
Lieutenant Colonel Eighth Infantry, Commissary - General of Prisoners.
[Indorsement.]
ADJUTANT - GENERAL'S OFFICE, December 2, 1861.
Lieutenant - Colonel Hoffman will repair to this city on duty and then return to New York.
By command:
E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant - General.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, December 2, 1861.
Major General JOHN E. WOLL, Fort Monroe, Va.
GENERAL: I have received your letter of the 29th ultimo, and have forwarded to Colonel Dimick at Fort Warren, Boston, the drafts which accompanied it, the proceeds of which are intended for the benefit of North Carolina prisoners there.
I am your very obedient servant,
WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
[DECEMBER 3 - 11, 1861. - Fort correspondence relating to Union sentiment and arrest of 134 so - called Union conspirators in Arkansas, see Series I, VOL. VIII, pp. 69, 662, 699, 700, 710.]
HEADUQARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,
Saint Louis, Mo., December 3, 1861.
Major General GEORGE B. McCLELLAN,
Commanding - in - Chief, Washington, D. C.
GENERAL: * * * I have directed to the Adjutant - General of the Army the correspondence between General Grant and Bishop General Polk in relation to the excharge of prisoners. * After bull consideration of the subject I am of the opinion that prisoners ought to be
---------------
* For this correspondence, see Vol. I, this Series, p. 511 et seq.
---------------
| Page 150 | PRISONERS OF WAR AND STATE, ETC. |
- 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