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Supplies For Prisoners Of War

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
November
Year
1861
Copyright
Public Domain
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Washington, Nov. 'i. A few weeks ago the Secretary of War authorizcd General Wool to asuortuin wbether oio th ing nul other i articlee neoessary to iho comfort of United States ciüzens oow prisooera of j war ciuld be sent to tbera. The folr I lovving letter shows that consent ior tbat purpoie has been gjven : "HaUXHUSTMS PKIMKT.MBXT OF NOKFOtK, ) November h, lhOl } (lTo Oï-ncral Jolin E. Wool, Cominanding Do])artinc-iit of Viin..;! . ''Sik- I consider Hiyaeli fully authorized to reply at onco to the inquiry inatle in your letter of the 8tb. My government will aüow blankets and ■ artiolea of clothing neeessary ior tlio [ comfort of prisoQars oí war. to bo'seDt to thoin. Any such artiea yon muy eend to me wifl bu prooiptly furwardud by the Southern Express Qompany, 1 and rnoney may be sent to pay tho freiglit here, or it may bo iaid on dolivery. '■':v rospMtfnlly, u YiHirouedu-nt srrvai-.t, !) "-BEJW. HÜGEB, "Miijor (Joncml Commandtog I cpartmeut." The government of the United States will próvido blanketK and clothing for tho prisonera of war and forwavd thdui throngh Gen. Wool, in aeoordiHNïe with the term of Uie letter from Oen. Huger. It in fnrther ascertained that this arrangement I. as been accomplished without co.npromising the goveinnient in any respect whatever.

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Michigan Argus