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Dutch Gap (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
by the Government of the United States. Being assured by General Ewell, commanding Confederate forces on the north side of the James, that an answer to this communication, if any, would be sent by 11 o'clock A. M., to-day and it being now past 12 (noon) and no answer having been received, It is ordered: That an equal number of prisoners of war, preferably members of the Virginia reserves, by and under whose charge this outrage is being carried on, be set to work in the excavation at Dutch Gap, and elsewhere along the trenches, as may hereafter seem best, in retaliation for this unjust treatment of the soldiers of the United States so kept at labor and service by the Confederate authorities. It being also testified to by the same witnesses, that the rations served to the soldiers of the United States so at labor is one pound of flour and one third of a pound of bacon daily, it is ordered that the same ration precisely be served to these Confederate prisoners so kept at work,
Tripoli (Libya) (search for this): chapter 15
act was passed substantially in accordance with this recommendation. Now, while it may be conceded as a usage of civilized warfare, that prisoners of war necessarily supported by the capturing government may be employed by that government to labor upon public work, yet it has never been among nations making professions of Christianity, held that captives of war, either by land or sea, could be made slaves. And it will also be remembered, that the United States Government went to war with Tripoli and other Barbary powers in 1804, to force them at the cannon's mouth to repudiate this doctrine. It will be seen that the Confederate commissioner, however, has so far modified his claim, that officers in command of colored troops and free negroes, although both may be serving in company with slaves as soldiers in the army of the United States, are to be treated as prisoners of war, so that the question of difference between us now is not one of color, because it is admitted now that free
Portland (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
allot-box, and who, as long as they can get matters regulated, and can have fair-play through the ballot-box, will go home and be much more ready to use the ballot-box than the cartridge-box. Therefore, I say to you, sir, let no man have fear on this subject. There are no better friends of free institutions, there are no more intelligent, no truer men and citizens at home and in peace, than in the army of the United States. I received similar receptions in Harrisburg, Philadelphia, Portland, and other cities. At a meeting in my honor at Boston in Faneuil Hall, after a lengthened speech, I remained several hours to receive a hand-shake of three thousand persons. I was invited to a public dinner in the evening and had the most distinguished consideration. A poem was read by New England's most distinguished author, her most charming and cherished poet, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, two lines of which I take leave here to quote from memory: The mower mows on, though the adde
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 15
of the United States and on the continent of America, that which God, when He sent us forth as a mthe exchange of prisoners on behalf of the United States, signed with the official signature of Robored soldiers serving in the armies of the United States, when captured, should be treated as slave to the government as property. This, the United States claimed, was a breach of the cartel by whinited States, and then been taken from the United States and given to the Confederate government bylation of the laws of some of these very Confederate States. Virginia has emancipated her slaves byd the agent of exchange on the part of the United States at Fortress Monroe in March last, you willheretofore been claimed as slaves by the Confederate States, as well as white soldiers? If this b In the view which the Government of the United States takes of the claim made by you to the persric of opposition to the Government of the United States has the right of property in man as its co[52 more...]
Plunkett (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
to be done; because another exchange of a part of the prisoners captured from our navy, held by the Confederates, was arranged with the Secretary of the Navy, who made the agreement outside of our commission by means of our flag of truce boat at Aiken's landing. As will be seen by a telegram, See Appendix No. 7. General Grant readily consented to this particular exchange, as it would not defeat Sherman or imperil our safety here. Against this exchange of sailors when I heard of it, as wperations of General Sherman, but Colonel Mulford succeeded in getting about twelve thousand men. In pursuance of the negotiations concluded by Colonel Mulford, an order See Appendix No. 12. was issued, Convalescent colored Union soldiers at Aiken's landing. and with this order all action on my part as commissioner of exchange practically ceased. I have felt it my duty to give with this particular carefulness an account of my participation in the business of exchange of prisoners, the o
Bull Run, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
he loss of an officer on his side. His second battle was fought on the 13th of July and resulted in the surrender of the enemy, consisting of one brigade officer, two colonels twenty-five officers, and five hundred and sixty men. The entire results of the campaign he himself sums up in these words: Nine guns taken, twelve colors, lots of prisoners, and all this was done with so little loss on our side, ten killed, thirty-five wounded. McClellan's letter, July 21. His story, page 62. Bull Run was fought between the Confederate army with about thirty-five thousand men, of whom three hundred and eighty-seven were killed and eighteen hundred and fifty-two wounded, and the Union army of about thirty thousand men, of whom four hundred and eighty-one were killed, and a thousand and upward wounded. McDowell was not censured for any action of his in the loss of that battle. He had been in command of his army three months. McClellan had been in command of his brigade twenty days. Con
Savannah (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
nd as I felt deeply the sufferings and privations of our soldiers in Andersonville and Salisbury, and other rebel prisons, I negotiated the special exchange of the sick and wounded, and for the exchange of naval prisoners, black and white, and also arranged that our government should be allowed to provide for the soldiers in the hands of the rebels. The condition of these exchanges and negotiations fully appear in the letter of instructions under which Lieutenant-Colonel Mulford sailed for Savannah carrying down the rebel sick, to bring back ours. This exchange covered about twelve hundred of our men. In an attack on Fort Gilmer on the 29th of September about one hundred and fifty of the negro soldiers of the Army of the James were captured. On the 12th of October I was credibly informed that these prisoners of war had been set at work in the trenches under fire in front of our lines. I immediately notified Mr. Ould, the agent of exchange, of this outrage, and failing to get an
Sewell's Point (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
authorities that any alleviation of the condition of our men, duly certified to us, would at once be followed by a corresponding difference in favor of their prisoners in our hands. The Secretary of War, feeling deeply the hardships of our captured soldiers, approved of the suggestion, Gen. J. W. Shaffer. and gave me permission to carry the plan into execution. This I proposed to do by placing Confederate officers to the number of some three thousand, either upon Hatteras Bank or at Sewall's Point near Fortress Munroe, both of which were nearly isothermal with Richmond in climate, and there treating them with scrupulous exactness to the same shelter, clothing, and fare which our men received, furnishing them while thus faring, with plenty of pens and paper, and every facility for communicating with the Confederacy. The effect could not be doubted. While I was engaged in preparing a proper encampment, the subject was referred by the Secretary of War to the general-in-chief of the
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
eases of the climate and location. There were parts of the Southern States, especially the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee, the plains and highlands of Georgia and Alabama, which were as healthy for Northern men as they were for Southern men, and our operations therein seemed so far to be rather for local than general coat can be collected, giving every inducement for them to accompany the army, letting them supply themselves as far as possible; and, having swept through Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina, denuding that territory as far as possible of its black population, let it spend the winter in the pine lands of North Carolina in organizing however, in regard to the other complaint, the failure to supply fuel for fire during that winter for our prisoners. The winters of North Carolina and a part of Georgia are sufficiently severe. Indeed, the only time any of my troops had their feet frozen was when a regiment of them bivouacked in North Carolina after a hard march
Point Lookout, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
ficers and soldiers went on. During this delay the Confederate prisoners at Point Lookout were informed of the action of their authorities, and at my request, by the or naval service of the United States. Of the ten thousand prisoners at Point Lookout, two regiments of infantry were enlisted, and many recruits went into the nce boat which carried up Confederate prisoners in our hands, I sent up from Point Lookout some four hundred and odd prisoners, being the wounded and sick Confederatepersonal knowledge of the condition of the rebel prisoners of war except at Point Lookout, where I had from twelve to fifteen thousand under my immediate charge fromlemen of my staff. In December, 1863, I made two personal inspections at Point Lookout of the condition of the rebel prisoners of war. I went into their camp, whiFrom that hour I never had a complaint of the treatment of the prisoners at Point Lookout, although many hundreds passed through Fortress Monroe on their way to be e
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