Andersonville, Volume 1

e Rebellion have been enveloped with such a mass of conflicting sta

mently charged that the Government of the United States deliberately and pitilessly resigned to their fate such of its soldiers as fell into the hands of the enemy, and repelled all advances from the Rebel Government looking toward a resu

as apparently led to no decision, nor any convictions-the disputants, one and all,

ment by prejudices in favor of my own Government's wisdom and humanity, but, however this ma

acknowledging the Confederacy, to be admission by us that the war was no longer an insurrection but a revolution, which had resulted in the 'de facto' establishment of a new nation. This difficulty was fina

greed upon by Generals Dig on our

, ON JAMES RIVER

y respectively represent to make arrangements for a general exch

held by either party, including those taken on private armed vessels, know

icer for officer. Privateers to be placed upo

of a higher grade, and men and officers of different services m

, shall be exchanged for officers of equal r

adier General, shall be exchanged for officers o

l be exchanged for officers of equal rank

vy, shall be exchanged for officers of equal

in the Army or marines shall be exchanged for offi

mmanders of privateers, shall be exchanged for officers of equal rank, or three privates or common seamen; Second Captains, Lieutenants or mates of merchant vessels or privateers, and all petty officers in the Navy, and all n

l military service will not be recognized; the basis of exchange being the gr

ffense, are exchanged, it shall only be for citizens. Captured sutlers, teamsters, and all civ

risoners not exchanged shall not be permitted to take up arms again, nor to serve as military police or constabulary force in any fort, garrison or field-work, held by either of the respective parties, nor as guards of prisoners, deposits or stores, nor

he same time, to the other party a list of their prisoners discharged, and of their own officers and men relieved from parole; thus enabling each party to relieve from parole

e, or for privates, according to scale of equivalents. Second, That privates and officers and men of different services may be exchanged according to the same scale of equivalents. Third, That all prisoners, of whatever arm of service, are to be exchanged or paroled in ten days from the time of their capture, if it be practicable to transfer them to their own line

IX, Major

Major Gene

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viously given by each party of the number of prisoners it will send, and the time when they will be delivered at those points respectively; and in case the vicissitudes of war shall change the military relations of the places designated in this article to the contending parties, so as to render the same inconvenient for the delivery and exchange of prisoners,

war, whose duty it shall be to communicate with each other by correspondence and otherwise; to prepare the lists of prisoners; to attend to the delivery of the

is mutually agreed that such misunderstanding shall not affect the release of prisoners on parole, as herein provided, but shal

neral. D. H. HILL, Ma

ly upon the spot-allowed them to visit home, and sojourn awhile where were pleasanter pastures than at the front. Then the Rebels grew into the habit of paroling everybody that they could constrain into being a

Rebels then issued an order that neither these troops nor their officers should be held as amenable to the laws of war, but that, when captured, the men should be returned to slavery, and the officers turned over to the Governors of the States in which they were taken, to be dealt with according to the stringent law punishing the incitement of servi

to do so for two reasons: first, because it was against the cartel, which prescribed that prisoners must be reduced to possession; and second, because he was anxious to have Lee hampered with such a body of prisoners, since it was very doubtful if he could get his beaten army back across the Potomac, let alone his prisoners. Lee then sent a communication to General Couch, comm

s added considerably to those in their hands by their captures at Chickamauga, while we gained a great many at Mission Ridge, Cumberland Gap and elsewhere,

oled. Our Government offered to exchange man for man, but declined-on account of the previous bad faith of the Rebels-to release the b

d to treat with him, on the ground that he was outlawed by the proclamation of Jefferson Davis. General Butler very pertinently replied that this only placed him nearer their level, as Jeff

upting the exchange be left temporarily in abeyance while an informal exchange was put in operation. He would send five hundred prisoners to City Point; let them

ed Union prisoners returned for them. Another five hundred, sent the next day

thorities concluded to send us to Andersonville. If the reader will fi