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Gen. Burnside's Release Of The Roanoke Prisoners

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
March
Year
1862
Copyright
Public Domain
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A correspondent of the Iribune givcs the following as the conditions on whieh (en. Burnsidc rcleascd tbe Koanoko prisonei's : '' The terms of exehange aro as follows : Officers are to be exohanged rank for rank; (hoae of our officers now in t ■ -' r liunds who have been longest in coníiiieracnl to be first cxclianged ; any surplus of officers in ow hands to be exclunged for all equivalent of privates, to ba determinad by tbc commission lately cstablishod by the govcrnnient any surplus of prisouers in our hands which may rctnain aftor all theirs have been exehanged, is to be pnssed to our credit, and an eijual nuuiber of future prisoners relcascd by them as they may capture thein. You wiil obsrve that this most ccjuitable and enlighteDed system tvill restureto their f autillos and friendo officers like Corcoran and Wtlcox, and men who have languishcd in southern prisons sioce July. ' Our prisoners are to bo dulivercd im tncJiatoly at Hlizabeth City; theirs at Fjrtresn Mource. The stuamers are now lyingolT Wier's Point with the prisoners on board, and will start for Ehzabeth City in an hour's time. " Gen. ]5urnside's secretarios, Messrs. Larned and French, have been hard at work for thrce nights past preparing lists of prisoners in quintuplícate, and writing the dispatehts and returns which are togoby this steamer. Tlie nuiuber and rank of our prisoners are actually as fcllows : " Two Colonels, 4 Licutenant Coloncls, 6 Majors, 31 Captains, 36 First Lieutenauts, 63 Secoud Lieutenauts, 3 Tlnrd Lieutenants, 8 Musieians, 148 Sergeant, 1215 Corporuls. 1,988 privates, and 29 servants belonging to officers, makiug in all a grand total of 2,-fSS prisoners of all rauks."

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Michigan Argus