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December 14, 1864--New York Times
ALLEVIATION OF THE CONDITION OF PRISONERS OF WAR.
A general order of the War Department states that Brig.-Gen. JAMES HAYES, United States Volunteers, and Col. STEPHEN M. WELD, Jr., Fifty-sixth Massachusetts Volunteers, prisoners of war, are selected by the United States as the officers to be placed on parole, agreeable to the arrangement entered into between Lieut.-Gen. GRANT and Commissioner OULD, to receive and distribute to United States prisoners of war such articles of clothing and other necessaries herein mentioned as may be issued by the Government or constituted from other sources. Should either Gen. HAYS or Col. WELD be unable to perform these duties, Col. THOMAS H. BUTTERS, Fifth Indiana Cavalry, and Lieut.-Col. JOHN A. MEANS, Two Hundred and Second Pennsylvania Volunteers, are designated as their alternatives.
The United States Government will forward to its prisoners of war in the South the following articles:
Uniform hats, caps, coats, and jackets; flannels, shirts, drawers, bootees, stockings, blankets, woolen blankets, gum, and commissary stores.
The friends of the prisoners of war confined in the South are permitted to forward them, by flap of truce or other authorized channel, the following articles: Coats, pants, vests, underclothes, socks, hats, caps, shoes, handkerchiefs, suspenders, looking-glasses, towels, brushes, combs, clothes, brooms, buttons, tape, thread, sewing cotton, pins and needles, scissors, pocket-knives, paper, envelopes, steel pens, lead pencils, penknives, postage stamps, tobacco, cigars, pipes, snuff, crushed sugar, syrups, family soap, butter, lard, smoked beef, beef tongue, bologna sausages, corn meal, nutmegs, pepper, mustard, table salt, salt fish, crackers, cheese, pickles, sauces, vegetables, dried fruits lemons, nuts, apples, matches, yeast, powder, crockery, glassware, tinware, meats and fish in cans. All articles for prisoners of war will be forwarded to Col. JOHN E. MULFORD, agent for the exchange of prisoners of war at Fort Monroe, Va.
ALLEVIATION OF THE CONDITION OF PRISONERS OF WAR.
A general order of the War Department states that Brig.-Gen. JAMES HAYES, United States Volunteers, and Col. STEPHEN M. WELD, Jr., Fifty-sixth Massachusetts Volunteers, prisoners of war, are selected by the United States as the officers to be placed on parole, agreeable to the arrangement entered into between Lieut.-Gen. GRANT and Commissioner OULD, to receive and distribute to United States prisoners of war such articles of clothing and other necessaries herein mentioned as may be issued by the Government or constituted from other sources. Should either Gen. HAYS or Col. WELD be unable to perform these duties, Col. THOMAS H. BUTTERS, Fifth Indiana Cavalry, and Lieut.-Col. JOHN A. MEANS, Two Hundred and Second Pennsylvania Volunteers, are designated as their alternatives.
The United States Government will forward to its prisoners of war in the South the following articles:
Uniform hats, caps, coats, and jackets; flannels, shirts, drawers, bootees, stockings, blankets, woolen blankets, gum, and commissary stores.
The friends of the prisoners of war confined in the South are permitted to forward them, by flap of truce or other authorized channel, the following articles: Coats, pants, vests, underclothes, socks, hats, caps, shoes, handkerchiefs, suspenders, looking-glasses, towels, brushes, combs, clothes, brooms, buttons, tape, thread, sewing cotton, pins and needles, scissors, pocket-knives, paper, envelopes, steel pens, lead pencils, penknives, postage stamps, tobacco, cigars, pipes, snuff, crushed sugar, syrups, family soap, butter, lard, smoked beef, beef tongue, bologna sausages, corn meal, nutmegs, pepper, mustard, table salt, salt fish, crackers, cheese, pickles, sauces, vegetables, dried fruits lemons, nuts, apples, matches, yeast, powder, crockery, glassware, tinware, meats and fish in cans. All articles for prisoners of war will be forwarded to Col. JOHN E. MULFORD, agent for the exchange of prisoners of war at Fort Monroe, Va.