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proved his suggestion, and had ordered an equal number of Confederate generals and field officers to be forwarded to be treated precisely as the Federal prisoners were, and with proper precautions to prevent escape, putting them in irons, if necessary, for that purpose. The first roll of Confederate prisoners of war made out for this purpose was from those confined at Fort Delaware, and included Maj.-Gens. Edward Johnson and Franklin Gardner, Brig.-Gens. J. J. Archer, G. H. Steuart and M. Jeff Thompson, and 46 colonels, lieutenant-colonels and majors. General Jones, on July 1st, proposed to General Foster that they should exchange prisoners, if the respective governments approved, and enclosed communications from Brigadier-Generals Wessells, Seymour Scammon, Heckman and Shaler, the Federal general officers in his hands, in which they declared that a prompt exchange of prisoners, if an exchange were to be made, was called for by every consideration of humanity. They also asked for
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
he rank of captain in the Trans-Mississippi forces. He was born in Frederick county, Va., and reared in Missouri, whence he returned to Virginia for his education in the State university. But in March, 1861, in view of the ominous condition of the country, he returned to his Missouri home, and in April enlisted as a private in the St. Joseph Zouaves, commanded by Capt. John Landis. He was soon promoted to orderly-sergeant, and in December was appointed aide-de-camp on the staff of Gen. M. Jeff Thompson, his uncle. He served in this capacity until the summer of 1863, when he resigned to again become a private, this time in Company D, of the Eighth Missouri cavalry, Marmaduke's brigade. He soon rose by promotion, and was captain of his company in the following winter, a rank which he held until he surrendered at Shreveport, La., June 22, 1865. He was a gallant soldier and in the course of his career was permitted to participate in nearly all the famous military events of the Tran