10 Series II Volume VII- Serial 120 - Prisoners of War
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send you the money. You must send the price of it. Everything is very quiet up here. The rebels all have gone up the Valley. So nothing more.
THOS. F. HODSON.
HDQRS. DEPT. OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA,
Fort Monroe, April 4, 1864.Brigadier-General RAWLINS, Chief of Staff:
GENERAL: You will remember that I spoke to you this morning about some men from the parole camp being ordered to me for special duty. I send you a memorandum of their names and a form of order. * The sooner we can have them the better. Send me the order and I will send for the men.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
BENJ. F. BUTLER,
Major-General, Commanding.
HDQRS. DEPT. OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA, OFFICE COMMISSIONER FOR EXCHANGE,
Fort Monroe, Va., April 4, 1864.Colonel W. HOFFMAN,
Commissary-General of Prisoners, Washington, D. C.:
SIR: I have had an investigation made of the matter referred to me through your office before the receipt of your note, and have had the evil corrected. The captain of the boat New York undoubtedly occupies too much of it, but no officer ever called it to notice.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully, yours, &c.,
BENJ. F. BUTLER,
Major-General and Commissioner for Exchange.
HDQRS. DEPT. OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA, OFFICE COMMISSIONER FOR EXCHANGE,
Fort Monroe, Va., April 4, 1864.Colonel W. HOFFMAN,
Commissary-General of Prisoners, Washington, D. C.:
SIR: Your communication in regard to Junius H. Browne, newspaper correspondent, has been received. Application will be made to Commissioner Ould to procure his exchange.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
BENJ. F. BUTLER,
Major-General and Commissioner for Exchange.
HDQRS. DEPT. OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA,
Fort Monroe, Va., April 4, 1864.Honorable ROBERT OULD, Agent for Exchange, Richmond, Va.:
SIR: I had an application the other day from a hospital steward to be discharged on the ground that he was a non-combatant, following the class of surgeons.
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* Not found, but see Root to Hoffman, April 13, 1864, p. 41.
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