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The Daily Dispatch: December 29, 1863., [Electronic resource], No Conference to be with Beast Butler on the Exchange question. (search)
ch an evasion at that attempted by Butler. The Yankee Secretary of War makes the following statement with regard to the prisoners captured at Vicksburg and Port Hudson: At Vicksburg over thirty thousand rebel prisoners fall into our hands, and over five thousand more at Port Hudson. These prisoners were paroled and suffePort Hudson. These prisoners were paroled and suffered to return to their homes until exchanged, pursuant to the terms of the cartel.--But the rebel agent, in violation of the cartel, declared the Vicksburg prisoners exchanged without being exchanged. The Port Hudson prisoners he, without just cause and in open violation of the cartel, declared released from their parole. These pling him to protract the contest to indefinite duration. If it had been true that we had released from exchange all the prisoners captured at Vicksburg and Port Hudson, we should have been perfectly justified in so doing.--In the first day's battle at Gettysburg Gen. Lee captured six thousand Yankees, who, having been paroled,
The Daily Dispatch: December 29, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
of negroes they have forced into their army, and have distributed them in heavy garrisons at different points, supposed to be about as follows: Fort Jackson 3,000, Fort.St. Philip 2,000, Fort Pike 2,000, Fort Parapet 2,000, Baton Rouge 1,000, Port Hudson 3,000. In New Orleans there are three black and three white regiments of infantry, one black regiment and three white companies of cavalry, and three white companies of the 21st Indiana artillery, with 8 20-pounders, 2 6 pounders, and 2 12-poy to do what he could for them, but he had no hopes of effecting anything. The parole, he said, was at an and, and he should turn them over to the guard. Capt. G. handed his sword — which he still wore, under the terms of the capitulation of Port Hudson — to a brother officer, exchanged his cap for the hat of the other, apparently in jest, and slipped ashore; another officer, whose name we forget, escaping at the same time. He remained eight days in New York, frequenting the places of am