The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 2, Volume 8. Page: 86
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PRISONERS OF WAR AND STATE, ETC.
COLUMBIA, January 17, 1865.
General S. COOPER,
Adjutant and Inspector General, Richmond, Va.:
The original location for prison, five miles below Columbia, has been
abandoned by order of the President. Another locality, fourteen miles
above Columbia, on the Charlotte railroad, has been selected and a
considerable quantity of timber has been gotten out, and we shall con-
tinue the construction unless you think it unsafe. We have been
delayed, waiting for the opinion of the district attorney as to the title
to the land and the want of the purchase money, and now we are
delayed, as the time of the last year's labor has expired and that for
this year we have not been enabled yet to procure. Ask the Quarter-
master General to send the purchase money at once. He has been
telegraphed to.
JOHN H. WINDER,
Brigadier- General.
[Indorsement.]
Respectfully submitted to His Excellency the President.
JOHN W. RIELY,
Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.
(Copies to the Honorable. Secretary of. War and Quartermaster-
General.)
GENERAL ORDERS, ( WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE,
No. 6. Washington, January 18, 1865.
A proposal having been made by Robert Ould on the 22d of August
last to "let all prisoners of war on each side be released from confine-
ment (close) or in irons, as, the case may be, and either placed in the
condition of other prisoners or sent to their respective homes for their
equivalents," which proposal was duly approved by the Secretary of
War, it is hereby ordered that all Confederate prisoners of war that
come within the terms of said accepted proposal be released and sent
to Fort Monroe, there to be detained, subject to the orders of Lieut.
Col. John E. Mulford, agent for the exchange of prisoners, to enable
him to carry the proposal into effect. In executing this order the
expression "confinement (close)" will be construed as meaning pris-
oners confined in cells.
By order of the Secretary of War:
W. A. NICHOLS,
Assistant Adjutant- General.
RICHMOND, January 18, 1865.
Lieut. Col. JOHN E. MULFORD, Assistant Agent of Exchange:
SIR: The Confederate authorities have been informed that the Hon.
C. C. Clay, sr., and another prominent gentleman of Huntsville, Ala.,
have been arrested and taken to Nashville, where they are held as
hostages for the safety of Judge Humphreys, formerly of the Confed-
erate Army, and more lately a citizen of Madison County, Ala. Judge
Humphreys was arrested by General Roddey, as I have been informed,
for disloyalty. When that fact was made known to the Confederate
authorities his release was ordered. It is not known whether he has86
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United States. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 2, Volume 8., book, 1899; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth139689/m1/95/: accessed May 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.