899 Series II Volume VI- Serial 119 - Prisoners of War
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Abstract of Federal troops paroled at City Point, Va., etc. --Continued.
RECAPITULATION.
Number. Value. Total value.
Captains. 1 6 6
Lieutenants. 2 4 8
Non-commissioned 512 2 1,024
officers.
Privates. 1,883 1 1,883
Citizens. 87
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87
Total. 2,485
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3,008
Colonel W. H. Powell, Second Virginia Cavalry; Captain A. H. Stanton, Sixteenth U. S. Infantry, and Captain James Galt, assistant quartermaster Sixth Division, Sixth Corps (reported this morning), and Captain W. H. Irving (reported a few days since), are not included in the above.
OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,
Washington, D. C., February 1, 1864.
Major-General HITCHCOCK, Commissioner for Exchange:
GENERAL: The delivery on the 23rd December is the one made to General Butler, and adding officers, non-commissioned officers, privates, and citizens together, makes a total of 520. These paroled men are at Camp Parole, Camp Chase, Benton Barracks, in general hospitals, on furloughs, and absent without leave. About 1,100 at Camp Parole.
Very respectfully,
W. HOFFMAN,
Commissary-General of Prisoners.
WASHINGTON, D. C., February 1, 1864.
Colonel W. HOFFMAN, Commissary-General of Prisoners:
SIR: Colonel Powell has arrived on parole from Richmond to effect an exchange for Colonel Lee (not general), now at Johnson's Island, and I request that Colonel Lee may be sent to Fort Monroe at once.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
E. A. HITCHCOCK,
Major-General of Volunteers.
HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES ATSANDUSKY AND JOHNSON'S ISLAND, OHIO,
Sandusky, February 1, 1864.Colonel WILLIAM HOFFMAN,
Commissary-General of Prisoners, Washington, D. C.:
COLONEL: Inclosed I send you a report made by surgeon-in-chief and acting assistant inspector-general of the command, also letter of Colonel Pierson, as to the peculiar position of those prisoners desiring to return to their allegiance to the Government; also the complaints of Major-General Trimble. As far as possible the real evils are being remedied. A rigid system of policing is established, and the wells will be so fixed (not filled up) as that no surface water will run into them.
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