Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-09-09
The Agreement for an Ex.
change Of Prisoners.
HAxAL's LANDING, JAMES River. Va,
Julv % 1860.

HAXALs LANDING, JAMES RIVER. Va
July %, 1862
The undersigned, having been commits
stoned by the authorities they respectively
to make arrangements for o general ex-
change Of prisoners Of war, have agreed to
the following articles:
ARTICLE l. 1t is hereby argeed and stip-
! ulated that all prisoners of war held by
either party. including those taken on pri-
waite armed vessels, known as priysteers,
shall be discharged upon the conditions and
terms following:
Prisoners to be exchanged man for man
and officer for officer; privateers TO be plac.
ed on the footing of ofhc ers and men Of the
rsvy.
Men and officers Of the lowest grades NAV
| be exhanged for officers of higher grades.
and men and of6csrs Of diffsssn. services
may be exchanged according to the follow
ing scale of equivalents:
A general commander-:n-cLief or an ad
miral shall be exchanged for oficersof equal
rank, or forty six privates or common sea-
| men.
A Gag officer or major general shall be
exchanged for officers of equal rank, or for.
| ty privates or common seamen.
A commodore carving board peunant,
or brigadier general, shall be exchanged
for officers Of equal rank, or twenty pri-
Yates or common seamen.
| A captain in the navy, or o colonel, shall
be exchanged for officers Of equal rank, or
fourteen privates or common seameu.
A lieutenant colonel or a commander in
the navy shall be exchanged for officers Of
equal rank, or for ten privates or common
seamen.
A lieutenant commander or q major shall
be exchanged for officers of equal rank, or
eight 2rivates or common seamen.
A lieutenant or master in the navy CT
q captain in the army or marines, shall be
exchanged for officers of equal rank, six
privates or common seamen.
Masters mates in The navy, or lieutenant
and engineers in the army, shall be ex.
changed for officers Of equal rank, or foul
privates or comman seamen.
Midshipmen, warrant officers 10 the ma
w, masters of merchant vessels and com
maDders OF privateers, shall be exchanged
for officers Of equal rank, or three private,
Or common ceamen:
Second-Captains, lieutensnts or mate
of mercbanfves or privateers, and al
petty officers in the army or marine shall
be severally exchange for persons of equs
rank, or for two privates or common sea.
men and private soldiers and common sea
men shall be exchanged for each 9th .r
man for man.
ART. 2. Local, State, civil and militar,
service. will not be recognized. the basis o
, exchange being the grade actually held il
the naval and military service of the re
spective parties.
ART. 8. If citizens held by either part,
on charge Of disljyalty or any alleged civi
offense are exchanged. it shall only be 70
citizens. captured suffers, teansters and al
civilians in the actual service of either paf
ty, to be exchanged for persons in simiIa
position.
ART. 4. All persons CT war to be di,
charged on parole it ten days after thei
capture. and the prisoners DOW held an
Il those hereafter to be tfansscfted to til
points mutually agreed upon at the expens
D Of the capturing party. The surplus pris
soners n ot exchanged shall not be permit
ted to take up arms again, nor 10 serve q
Q military police or cnnstabulsry force IN an
fort, garrison, or field work held by eitbe
OF the respective parties, nor as guards {
, prisoners. depots or stores, nor to discharg
j any duty usually performed by soldiers
i until exchanged under the provisions Q
:, this cartel. The exchange is not to be cor
sidered complete until the officer or so.dis
exchanged tor has been actually restore
. to the lines to which he belongs.
ART. 6. Each party, under the discharg
J. of prisoners of the other darty, are authC
rized to discharge an equal number of thei
own officers ana men as the party ma
u choose. The lists thus mutually furnis
ed will keep both parties advised of Ii
r true condition Of the exchanges Of pris,
u Ders.
VI ART. Z. The stipuletions and provision
above mentioned to be of binding oblig
" ton during the continuance Of the war,
:. matters not which party may have the su
plus Of prisoners, the great principle i
:. volved being:
II !. An equitable exchange Of prisoner
= man for man, officer. OF officers of high
> grade exchanged for officers of lower gFa
. or for privates, according to the scale
:. equivalents.
c' 2. That privates aud officers and men
different services, may be exchanged acct
ding to the same scale OF equivalents.
20 3. That all prisoners, Of Whatsoever or
- Of service, are to be exchanged or parol
es in ten days from the time of their captui
10 If it be practicable to transfer them to tn,
er own lines 10 that time /; If not, as so
10 thereafter as practicable.
10 A. That no officer. soldier or employ
IN in the service of either party is to be CO
sidered as exchanged and absoived fire.
ig his parole until his equivalent has actual
reached the line of bis friends.
=. S. The parole forbids the performances
:. field, garrison, police or quad Of constat
: Jar duty.
., (Signed) JOHN A DIX. Maj. Gen.
he d. II. HILL. Maj. General