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1863 AD (search for this): chapter 3
kinds could generally be managed by threatened retaliation. The practice of the agents of exchange up to May, 1863, had been to recognize paroles taken upon the battle-field, even though the parties thereto were not kept for some time in the possession of the capturing party, or delivered at the points designated in the cartel. In that month, however, I was notified that a new rule had been adopted by the Federal authorities, contained in their General Orders Nos. 59 and 100 of the year 1863, which provided that no paroles, unaccompanied by continued possession and actual delivery at the points designated in the cartel, would be recognized. An exception was made where paroles were taken in pursuance of an agreement between the commanders of two opposing armies. But while these general orders invalidated all paroles not coming within the description, they distinctly declared that if a parole should be given under different circumstances, and the United States did not approve of
John Pope (search for this): chapter 3
more prominent incidents connected with the exchange question, and especially the matters that led to a suspension of the cartel. In narrating them, I have, as far as I well could, presented them in chronological order, that they might be better grasped. There are some other matters connected with exchanges which, though minor in importance, may be of interest. One of the earliest difficulties connected with the cartel was the matter of the arrest and detention of non-combatants. General Pope, who proclaimed that his headquarters were in the saddle, a thing which most people would have believed without that information from him, on the 23d of July, 1862, one day after the adoption of the cartel, issued a general order directing the arrest of all disloyal male citizens within the Federal lines, or within their reach in the rear. Those who would take the oath of allegiance to the United States, and furnish sufficient security for its observance, could remain unmolested; but tho
Benjamin F. Butler (search for this): chapter 3
some of them thought that the story, real or exaggerated, of the sufferings of the prisoners would fire the Northern heart. Be all this as it may, I suppose no one is prepared to challenge the suspension of the cartel as an unwise military expedient in a Federal point of view. In other aspects of the case it was not quite so clever. In the early spring of 1864, still desirous of restoring the cartel, even with modifications if they were pressed, I determined to invoke the aid of General B. F. Butler, having learned that it would not be disagreeable to him to have an interview. General Butler some months before that time had been appointed Federal Agent of Exchange. The Confederate Government very unwisely, as I then thought, and now think, had refused to recognize him as an agent of exchange, or to hold any intercourse with him as such. About the time of his appointment he sent a detachment of prisoners, requiring, however, a return delivery of a like number of such as were in
Burnside (search for this): chapter 3
igerents. Pray, how, upon any other theory than that of equality, can a cartel be framed or executed? On the 26th of July, 1863, General John H. Morgan and his command were captured. They were carried to Cincinnati, and from thence, by General Burnside's order, he and twenty-eight of his officers were sent to the penitentiary at Columbus, where they were shaved and their hair cut very close by a negro convict. They were then marched to the bath-room and scrubbed, and thence to their cellrs were continued in the penitentiary, and compelled to suffer all the indignities of felon life. It taxes credulity too much to believe that the United States were not responsible for the treatment they received, sent there as they were by General Burnside, and kept there by the United States War Department. While on the subject of Morgan's command, it may not be inappropriate to relate an incident which furnishes a dark chapter in the history of paroles, and serves to show the times upon
August, 1864 AD (search for this): chapter 3
t informed. The Confederates never gave an opportunity for disclosure, as they maintained their position on the slave question to the end. Not having been able to obtain any answer to my letter to General Hitchcock, I made another move in August, 1864, the actual result of which staggers belief. Under the instructions of the Confederate authorities, I offered to the United States their sick and wounded without requiring any equivalents. I tendered ten or fifteen thousand of this class, to or last of November, and then I delivered as many prisoners as could be transported with the means at hand, some thirteen thousand in number, among whom were more than five thousand well men. It has been asserted that no such offer was made in August, 1864, and that the first proposal, looking to anything like a general delivery of the sick and wounded, was first made by the United States, in October, 1864, and that the delivery at Savannah was in consequence of this last-mentioned movement. Ge
B. F. Butler (search for this): chapter 3
disagreeable to him to have an interview. General Butler some months before that time had been appo afterward, I had a reason to believe that General Butler held views favorable to the restoration ofme back into his possession by recapture. General Butler, on the other hand, while admitting that und a better one for the black. At length, General Butler assented to this view, and so we constructe part of the Confederate Government. But General Butler said he was not authorized to do so, and wght appear. I have reason to believe that General Butler urged the adoption of the new cartel with known to the country what his action was. General Butler, in his report to the Committee on the Con put a stop to them. This statement of General Butler is substantially repeated by him in his retchcock. Silence covered Hitchcock, while General Butler, in obedience to the orders of the lieutenorthy fact disclosed in this confession of General Butler. It appears that these maligned Confedera[11 more...]
Robert Ould (search for this): chapter 3
The Exchange of prisoners. Judge Robert Ould. I know it is a very difficult matter for one who was. an active participant in any of the affairs of our late war, to divest himself of prejudice os were relieved, being upwards of eight thousand more than we gave the rebels. In August last, Mr. Ould, finding negotiations were broken off, and that no exchanges were made, wrote to General Hitchcem, as I had proposed in December. Under the instructions by the lieutenant general I wrote to Mr. Ould, a letter, which has been published, saying: Do you mean to give up all your action, and revokeething of a portrait of the man I was dealing with: Fortress Monroe, September 30th, 1863. Hon. Robert Ould, Agent of Exchange, Richmond, Va.: Sir:--Had I succeeded, after waiting thirty hours, inmatters relating to the welfare of the prisoners. Respectfully, your obedient servant, Robert Ould, Agent of Exchange. It gives me no pleasure to write these things; nor do I seek to bring m
E. A. Hitchcock (search for this): chapter 3
part to which exception was ever taken. General Hitchcock and others had certain purposes in view,most truthful. The distance between him and Hitchcock in these respects was almost infinite. Ind that no exchanges were made, wrote to General Hitchcock, the Commissioner, at Washington, that tese statements of a Federal general with General Hitchcock's report of the same matters. I have noble to obtain any answer to my letter to General Hitchcock, I made another move in August, 1864, thany common rule on the subject. And yet General Hitchcock, in his report, says that the rebels inad for anybody's credence. This extract from Hitchcock's report, however, discloses one thing, whict's command. He showed me a letter from General Hitchcock, in which the same statement was made. t to transact any business with him. General Hitchcock, whom I never saw during the war, had hiRichmond, Va., January 24th, 1864. Major General E. A. Hitchcock, Agent of Exchange: Sir:--In vi[14 more...]
John H. Morgan (search for this): chapter 3
n Streight's men were detained on our side, or Morgan's men on his, exchanges were not stopped thereecuted? On the 26th of July, 1863, General John H. Morgan and his command were captured. They ws. Seven days afterward forty-two more of General Morgan's officers were sent from Johnson's Island letter, General Meredith informed me that General Morgan and his officers were held for others than had nothing to do with the treatment that General Morgan and his command received --and then I was told that General Morgan and his officers were not held for the members of Colonel Streight's comman this time, and for a long time afterward, General Morgan and his officers were continued in the pencretary of War. On the 5th of July, 1863, General Morgan captured the command of Lieutenant Colonelered back into service, he would report to General Morgan at some point within the Confederate linesd thus paroled actually captured a part of General Morgan's force. Lietenant Colonel Hanson himself[5 more...]
July 22nd, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 3
se of years has been sufficient to enable them to be in that frame of mind. Previous to July, 1862, no formal or permanent cartel of exchange had been adopted by the belligerent parties to our great civil war. Before that time it is true that there had been many captures by either side; but the prisoners had either been exchanged man for man or officer for officer of equal grade, or had been released on parole by the respective governments, or by commanders in the field. On the 22d of July, 1862, a cartel of exchange was drawn up and signed by General John A. Dix and General D. I. Hill, representing the respective belligerents. By its terms, all prisoners of war were to be discharged on parole in ten days after their capture, and the prisoners then held, and those thereafter taken, were to be transported to the points mutually agreed upon, at the expense of the capturing party. The surplus prisoners on one side or the other, who were not exchanged, were not to be permitted t
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