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[Fourth indorsement.]
AUGUST 11, 1864.
Colonel Hoffman is requested to state whether suitable instructions have been sent to the commanding officer at Camp Chase, in view of the with statements.
E. A. HITCHCOCK,
Major-General of Volunteers.
[Fifth indorsement.]
OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,
Washington, D. C., August 11, 1864.
Respectfully returned to Major-General Hitchcock, with circular of regulations issued from this office April 20, 1864*, with reference to paragraphs 14 and 15 and to the inclosed orders to sustain the within statements.
W. HOFFMAN,
Colonel Third Infantry and Commissary-General of Prisoners.
[Sixth indorsement.]
AUGUST 13, 1864.
General Hitchcock invites the attention of Colonel Pelouze to the paper with indorsement by Colonel Hoffman in order that the Secretary may be advised of a recommendation in the paper, approved by Colonel Hoffman, that a fence shall be constructed at Camp Chase for the better security of the prisoners.
[Seventh indorsement.]
OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,
Washington, D. C., August 27, 1864.
Respectfully returned to Major-General Hitchcock, commissioner for exchange, with a report on this subject heretofore submitted to the War Department. I also submit Circular Numbers 4+, recently issued from this office, limiting the articles which may be delivered to prisoners, together with a notice of the order cut from the Washington Morning Chronicle of this date disapproving these instructions and urging that the order may be revoked.
W. HOFFMAN,
Colonel Third Infantry and Commissary-General of Prisoners.
[Eighth indorsement.]
AUGUST 29, 1864.
The undersigned, as growing out of the report within, respectfully recommends that the fence, as approved by Colonel Hoffman, be authorized.
E. A. HITCHCOCK,
Major-General of Volunteers.
[Ninth indorsement.]
Approved:
E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
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* See p. 72.
+ See August 10, p. 573.
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