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FROM PORT ROYAL: The Preparations for Exchanging Prisoners; FEARFUL STORY OF REBEL BARBARITIES (11/19/1864)
New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 11/19/1864
Posted on 11/19/2024 5:10:45 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
The United States steam-transport Fulton, WALTON, from Port Royal Nov. 15, to United States Quartermaster, arrived yesterday morning.
The day the Fulton sailed twelve vessels had arrived from Fortress Monroe, with ten thousand prisoners, to be exchanged. They were dying at the rate of four or five per day.
THE EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS.
Preliminary Preparations-Escape of Prisoners from Colombia-A Fearful Story of Suffering.
STEAMER NEW-YORK, PORT ROYAL, S.C., Tuesday, Nov. 14, 1864.
For some weeks past it has been very widely known that, although the vexed question of exchanging prisoners of war, still remains unsettled between the rebel Government and our own, a special arrangement has been brought about for the transfer on either side of all the sick and invalid prisoners. It has also been generally known that Lieut.-Col. MULFORD, the Agent of Exchange on the part of the United States, has had under his orders at Fortress Monroe a large fleet of steamships, comprising some of the finest transports afloat, fitted with needful accommodations to bring our released men to the North from the Savannah River, the point designated by the rebels for their delivery into our hands. And likewise it has been generally understood that the number of our patriot soldiers who are thus to be redeemed from the languishing imprisonment and barbarous cruelties of the enemy was about ten thousand. Probably no event of the war has invested itself with intenser interest for the public mind than this proposed exchange. What father or mother in the loyal States, from the shores of the Atlantic, across the wide continent to the Pacific coast, who has a much-loved son in any of the vile prison-pens of the South, is not to-day praying that he who is so dear may be among the number selected
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TOPICS: History
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2 posted on 11/19/2024 5:12:15 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
From Port Royal: The Preparations for Exchanging Prisoners – 2-3
The Army of the Potomac: The Wounding of Gen. Egan – 3-4
From New-Orleans: Arrival of the Steamship Morning Star – 4-5
Gen. Sherman’s Movement – 5
The War in Tennessee: The District of Tennessee – 5
From the South: The Question of Arming Negroes – 5-8
News from Washington – 8
The Thanksgiving Dinner: Grand Results of the Appeal to the People – 8-9
Editorial: The Mysterious Georgia Campaign – 9
Editorial: The Exchange of Invalid Prisoners – 9-10
The Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Thanksgiving Dinner – 10
Editorial: The Submission of the Northern Minority as Opposed to the Rebel Spirit – 10
Naval Intelligence – 10
Amusements this Evening – 10
3 posted on 11/19/2024 5:12:50 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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