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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 33 : retaliation for outrages. (search)
Chapter 33: retaliation for outrages.
General Pope, commanding a new army in Northern Virginia, having issued the most brutal orders directed against peaceful citizens, the President wrote to General Lee as follows:
Richmond, Va., July 31, 1862. General R. E. Lee, Commanding, etc. Sir:
On the 22d of this month a cartel for the exchange of prisoners of war was signed between Major-General D. H. Hill, in behalf of the Confederate States, and Major-General John A. Dix, in behalf of the United States.
By the terms of that cartel it is stipulated that all prisoners of war hereafter taken shall be discharged on parole till exchanged.
Scarcely had the cartel been signed when the military authorities of the United States commenced a practice changing the character of the war from such as becomes civilized nations into a campaign of indiscriminate robbery and murder.
The general order issued by the Secretary of War of the United States in the city of Washington, on the v
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 45 : exchange of prisoners and Andersonville . (search)