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466 Series II Volume VIII- Serial 121 - Prisoners of War

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HEADQUARTERS COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,
Danville, Va., April 3, 1865.

I. H. WHITE, Chief Surgeon:

SIR: I am directed by the commanding general to instruct you to hold yourself in readiness to accompany him to Augusta, Ga., where our headquarters will be established.

By order of Daniel Ruggles, Commissary-General of Prisoners:

SAML. T. BAYLY,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPT.,


Numbers 32.
Shereveport, La., April 3, 1865.

All officers and men delivered on parole in this department previous to this date are exchanged and will immediately rejoin their commands.

By command of General E. Kirby Smith:

S. S. ANDERSON,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,

Washington, D. C., April 4, 1865.

Bvt. Brigadier General W. P. RICHARDSON,

Commanding Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio:

GENERAL: From the records of this office it appears that the prisoners named on the accompanying roll, who were captured by the forces of Major-General Steele in the Department of Arkansas prior to July 28, 1864, are still at Camp Chase, and the Commissary-General of Prisoners directs that immediately on the receipt of this you will please forward all of them, or as many as are present who desire to be exchanged, to Cairo, to be delivered to the commanding officer, who will be instructed to forward them with other prisoners of the same class to New Orleans for exchange. Return the inclosed roll to this office with a note opposite the nameof eachman showing whether he has been forwarded, or what disposition has been made of him. It is probable that some of thesemen have already been forwarded for exchange, have been discharged, or have died.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

W. T. HARTZ,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

(Same, mutatis mutandis, to Colonel B. J. Sweet, Camp Douglas, Ill.; Bvt. Brigadier General A. A. Stevens, Camp Morton, Ind.; Colonel J. H. Baker, Saint Louis, Mo.; Colonel A. J. Johnson, Rock Island Barracks; Colonel J. H. Kuhn, Alton, Ill., Colonel C. W. Hill, Johnson's Island, and Brigadier General A. Schoepf, Fort Delaware, Del.)

OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,

Washington, D. C., April 4, 1865--5 p. m.

Brigadier General A. SCHOEPF, Commanding Fort Delaware, Del.:

Report by telegram to the commanding officer at Cairo, Ill., without unnecessary delay the number of prisoners to be forwarded for ex-


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