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The Daily Dispatch: February 17, 1864., [Electronic resource], The correspondence on the exchange question. (search)
nge of soldiers and officers, upon terms not conflicting with the position of the department relative to colored soldiers, nor surrendering men without just equivalent, man for man, officer for officer.--Subsequently he was directed to exchange first those who had been longest confined, and to waive for the time the consideration of the question of parte and excess of prisoners in our hands. He was allowed also to exchange colored men in civil employment captured by our forces. On the 25th of December, Gen. Butter sent forward by Assistant Commissioner Mutford, five hundred and two prisoners from Point Lookout, asking in exchange for a similar number, and leaving in abeyance all existing differences, with assistances that their prisoners in our hands were well cared for, and suggestions looking to the immediate exchange of convalescent or disabled prisoners. In communications of the same date he asked for the exchange of Alfred F. Bingle, of the Sanitary Commission, confined in Cast