UNION AND CONFEDERATE
CORRESPONDENCE, ORDERS, ETC., RELATING TO PRISONERS OF WAR AND STATE
FROM JANUARY 1, 1865, TO THE END.--#32
WAR DEPARTMENT, BUREAU OF MILITARY JUSTICE, November 3, 1865.
Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War:
…..Sixth· That Captain Alexander, of the Salisbury prison;
Lieutenants Wilson, Cheatham, and Mosely, of the Florence prison; Maj.
John E. Rylander, Tenth Georgia Battalion, of the Macon prison (in
1862); Colonel. Godwin, stationed at Salisbury; Captain Vowles, at
Millen, Ga.; Lieutenant Emack and Dick Turner, of the Libby Prison;
Capt. G. W. Alexander, of Castle Thunder (in 1862); Capt. John Adams, of
a Mississippi regiment, stationed at Memphis in 1861; and one Peacocke,
an alleged deserter from the Ninth New York Volunteers and a subordinate
of Wirz, at Tuscaloosa in 1862, are all presented by the accompanying
testimony as guilty of acts more or less cruel and criminal in their
treatment of prisoners of war. None of these cases are yet in a
condition for trial, but should, it is thought, be made the subject of
such further investigation by the different local commanders as may be
practicable.
Besides Winder, Duncan, and Nesbit, it is not known that any of these
criminals are in military custody. It is understood that an effort is
now being made by the commander of the Department of North Carolina to
effect the arrest of Gee, and it is supposed that Iverson and Barrett
may be apprehended at Columbus and Augusta, Ga., their respective places
of residence. It is conceived that the trial of Duncan, if it be
concluded to prosecute him, could be entered upon at an early day.
