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The Daily Dispatch: March 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 11 (search)
e latter. Gen. Halleck will neither admit fugitive slaves within his lines, nor will be countenance their concealment in any way by his troops. Poor Greeley! The further the war progresses the more remote becomes the realization of the fanatical hopes that led him and the faction with which he is connected to provoke it. Correspondence Stopped. Fortress Monroe, Feb. 23. --A recent order from the War Department prohibits the transmittal of private letters through the lines of the United States troops to persons living in the enemy's country, and requires officers of the army to send such letters to the Dead Letter Office. Exception to this rule is made in favor of letters addressed to officers and men detained as prisoners by the insurgents. It is therefore useless to send private letters to this post to be transmitted by "flags of truce" to Norfolk, as they must either be returned to the writers or sent to the Dead Letter Office. J. Roberts, Major, U. S. A.