297 Series II Volume III- Serial 116 - Prisoners of War
| Page 297 | CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. -UNION. |
CHICAGO, February 21, 1862.
Major-General HALLECK:
The troops from here are ordered into the field and there is not usfficient guard for prisoners of war arriving to prevent escape, owing to extent of camp to guard. Prisoners are being made comfortable in barracks, but they arrive in much confusion-parts of regiments and companies together-and many thinly clothedand some sick and no surgeons with them. The guard accompanying he prisoners are ordered to return immediately. They are from the Fifty-second Illinois and Twentieth Ohio. A temporary force can be raised here sufficient for guard if you direct, and the guard who accompanied them remain until it is organized.
JOSEPH H. TUCKER,
Colonel, Commanding.
SPRINGFIELD, February 21, 1862.
Major-General HALLECK:
I noticed last night the guard for prisoners who passed through here to Chicago was insufficient and telegraphed to Chicago a strong guard to be furnished and have no d9ubt it was done. Have nothing but an arsenal guard here, but 400 of Colonel Voss' cavalry will be here to-morrow. If prisoners are sent here to-day let me have time to raise a citizen guard.
A. C. FULLER,
Adjutant-General.
SPRINGFIELD, February 21, 1862.
Major-General HALLECK:
Will you advise me what character of discipline shall be enforced upon prisoners and civil authorities at Chicago are doing everything to make the prisoners comfortable, but the mayor telegraphs me this evening that there is much indignation that the rebel officers have beenfeasted at the principal hotels. Shall I order a strong inclosure around the barracks?
A. C. FULLER,
Adjutant-General.
CHICAGO, February 21, 1862.
QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL, Washington:
I am ordered by the State authorities to supply clothing, camp and garrison equipage to all prisoners arriving, and notified that 7,000 will be here to provide for. Shall I do it?
J. A. POTTER,
Captain and Assistant Quartermaster.
BALTIMORE, MD., February 21, 1862.
Captain G. V. FOX, Assistant Secretary of the Navy:
Notice having been received by General Woolthat some 400 exchanged prisoners would be sent down James River yesterday the
| Page 297 | 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