. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ell Cobb, on February 23d,and an agreement, except upon the point of delivery at the frontier o5 their own country, was reached for the deliveryof all prisoners, the excess to be on parole. At a subsequentmeeting. General Wool announced that his instructions hadbeen changed and that he could exchange man for man offer was refused by General Cobb, who charged that thereason for the unwillingness to complete the agreement was thecapture of Forts Henry and Done
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ell Cobb, on February 23d,and an agreement, except upon the point of delivery at the frontier o5 their own country, was reached for the deliveryof all prisoners, the excess to be on parole. At a subsequentmeeting. General Wool announced that his instructions hadbeen changed and that he could exchange man for man offer was refused by General Cobb, who charged that thereason for the unwillingness to complete the agreement was thecapture of Forts Henry and Donelson, Mhich gave the FederalGovernment an excess of jjrisoners which it was unwilling torelease on parole. As the next move on the chess-board, the ConfederateGovernment refused longer to make individual exchanges onthe ground that, as jjolitical jjressure in many cases caused theFederal Government to ask for the exchange of certain indi-viduals, those who had no influential friends would be left inprison. On a letter of General ]McClellan jiroposing an ex-change, the Confederate Secretary of War, G. W. Randolph, [loof ^^.
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