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The Daily Dispatch: May 18, 1863., [Electronic resource] 3 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
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r object and duty. You seek to defeat this effort, and by means not known to honorable warfare, but by placing unarmed and helpless prisoners under fire. I have forwarded your communication to the President, with a request that he place in my custody an equal number of prisoners of like grade, to be kept by me in positions exposed to the fire of your guns, so long as you continue the course stated in your communication. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, J. Foster, Major-General Commanding. D. C. Wager, Assistant Adjutant-General. Charleston, June 14. For some time past it has been known that a batch of Yankee prisoners, comprising the highest rank now in our hands, were soon to be brought hither to share the pleasure of the bombardment. They accordingly arrived on Sunday. We give a list of their names and rank: Brig.-Gen. Seymour, Col. W. C. Lee, Brig.-Gen. Wessels, Col. R. White, Brig.-Gen. Scammon, Col. H. O. Bolinger, Brig.-G