608 Series II Volume V- Serial 118 - Prisoners of War
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the United States Government. If Adjutant Kennard is not promptly delivered no alternative will be left but to select one or more Federal officers of equal rank and subject them to like treatment.
I am, colonel, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
RO. OULD,
Agent of Exchange.
WAR DEPARTMENT, OFFICE EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS,
Richmond, Va., May 13, 1863
Lieutenant Colonel WILLIAM H. LUDLOW,
Agent of Exchange, Fortress Monroe.
COLONEL: I have the honor to inform you that I have this day declared specially exchanged: Second Lieutenant B. A. Marshall, Company H, Fifty-ninth Virginia; Lieutenant R. F. Lefler, Company H, Fifty-seventh North Carolina; Sergt. G. J. Pollard, Company H, Fifty-ninth Virginia, captured May 30, 1863, at Ashland, Va., by Colonel J. Kilpatrick, commanding First Brigade, Third Division, Cavalry Corps, and released on parole, which I will offset to this extent against the number due me on deliveries at City Point up to the time of our last interview.
I am, colonel, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
RO. OULD,
Agent of Exchange.
WAR DEPARTMENT, OFFICE EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS,
Richmond, Va., May 13, 1863
Lieutenant Colonel WILLIAM H. LUDLOW,
Agent of Exchange, Fortress Monroe.
COLONEL: I have the honor to inform you that I have this day declared specially exchange; Captain Taliaferro Hunter, assistant quartermaster; D. T. White, teamster; Paul Lipscomb, teamster; J. B. Wright, teamster, captured May 3, 1862, at Hanover Junction, Va., by Lieutenant Colonel H. Davis, commanding Twelfth Illinois Cavalry, and released on parole which I will offset to this extent against the number due me on deliveries at City Point up to the time of our last interview.
I am, colonel, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
RO. OULD,
Agent of Exchange.
CINCINNATI, OHIO, May 14, 1863
Honorable E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War, Washington:
Vallandigham is still here under guard. Will not be sent till to-morrow. He is sentenced to confinement in Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, during the war.
A. E. BURNSIDE,
Major-General.
HEADQUARTERS, Cincinnati, May 14, 1863
Colonel HOFFMAN, Commissary-General of Prisoners:
Shall rebel officers, prisoners of war, be released on taking the oath of allegiance? I would recommend that it be allowed.
A. E. BURNSIDE.
Major-General.
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