Burnside, Ambrose Everett, 1824-1881 to Henry Wise

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GLC#
GLC02455.01-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
February 12, 1862
Author/Creator
Burnside, Ambrose Everett, 1824-1881
Title
to Henry Wise
Place Written
Roanoke Island, North Carolina
Pagination
1 p. : docket Height: 30.5 cm, Width: 20 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Union Brigadier General Burnside, commanding Department of North Carolina, writes to Confederate Brigadier General Wise, commanding Chowan District, Department of Norfolk. Agrees to a written request from Wise of the day before that the bodies and effects of fallen Confederates from the Battle of Roanoke Island (7-8 February 1862) be sent to him. In reference to another request Wise made about prisoner exchanges, Burnside asks that Wise forward an enclosed proposition (not present) to his superior, Major General Benjamin Huger. Writes, "The condition expressed in this proposition that those prisoners longest in confinement shall be released first, is Simply on the ground of humanity."

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