The War of the Rebellion, Vol. 7: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from The War of the Rebellion, Vol. 7: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies

Sir: I have observed lately several paragraphs in newspapers pur porting to represent statements made in the South by ofiicers in the rebel army to Federal prisoners of war, importing that the rebel author ities have been willing to exchange prisoners of war, and that the fault in not making exchanges is with the Government of the United States.

I desire to say that, so far as I am informed and believe, this state ment is essentially untrue. The question of exchanges continues to be, is I understand, precisely what it was when interrupted by the rebels themselves several months since.

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Excerpt from The War of the Rebellion, Vol. 7: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies

Respectfully referred to 001. William Hoffman, commissary-general of Prisoners.

As the hospital fund is not sufficient to supply the necessary amount of vegetables for the sick prisoners of war, I respectfully recommend that a supply be furnished from the prison fund, and that the sutler to prisoners be permitted to sell green vegetables to them during the time that scurvy prevails in camp. This will give great relief. The pris oners have plenty of money and will purchase these vegetables for themselves if permitted.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.