The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-02-08

HEsDQuARrERs DEPARTMENT OF rHH CuNHyRIAsD,l
Muffreesboro, Tenn, January 2Dth, 1868.
General Orders, No 3.
The following extracts from the Car
tel under which prisoners are exchanged
in the existing war with the Southern
States, are published for the information
Of this army -
"ARTIcLE All Prisoners Of War TO
be discharged on Parole in ten days after
their capture, and the Prisoners now held,
and those hereafter taken, to be trans
ported to the points mutually agreed
upon, at the expense of the capturing
party. The surplus prisoners not ex-
changed, shall not be permitted to take
up arms again, nor to serve as military
Police, or CoAstabulary force in any
Fort Garrison or Field Work held by
either of the respective parties, nor as
Guards of Prisoners, Depots or Stores
nor to discharge any duty usually per-
formed by Soldiers, until exchanged un-
der the provisions Of this Cartel"
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"ARTICLE 7.-All prisoners of War now
held on either side, and all prisoners
hereafter taken, shall be sent with all
reasonable dispatch to A. NJ Aikens, be-
low Dutch Gap, on the James River, Vir-
ginia, or to Vicksburg, on the Missis-
sippi River in the State Of Mississippi,
and there exchanged, or paroled until
such exchange can be effected, notice
being previously given by each party of
the number of Prisoners it will send, and
the time when they will be delivered at
these points respectively, and In case the
vicissitudes of war shall change the mill
itary relations of the places designated
in this article 10 the contending parties,
so as TO render the same inconvenient for
the delivery and exchange Of Prisoners,
other places, bearing as nearly as may be
the present local relations of said places
to the lines of said parties, shall be by
mutual agreement substituted. But
nothing in this Article contained shall
prevent the Commanders of the opposing
Armies from exchanging prisoners or re-
leasing them on Parole at other points
mutually agreed upon by said Comman'
ders"
In pursuance of the terms of the Car
tel it is ordered, that all officers ant
soldiers captured by this army, be imme'
diately paroled and sent to the neares
Military Post, duplicate Descriptive
Rolls being sent to the Provost Marsha
, General at these Headquarters, Whose
f duty il will be to see that such Prisoner
are promptly forwarded for exchange.
, No Confederate Officers or Soldiers
/: captured by this Army, that may be pa
rolled and set at liberty without prope
delivery, as provided in the Cartel, will
be claimed as Prisoners of War an,
proper subjects of exchange.
No United States Officers or Soldier
50 captured, paroled and set at liberty
i without proper delivery, as provided i
the Cartel, will be considered as Prison
: ers of War and proper subjects of ex
change, but will be Immediately ordere
n back to duty, such parole being viola
II ion of the terms of the Cartel. An al
= tempt on the part of the capturing part
= thus to force delivery to their own ad
il vantage, forfeits their right to hold th
n prisoners.
j. By command of Maj. Gen. RosEoRAN
G. GODDARD,
Asst AdpL Gen'l. and Chief of stal
Official:
HENRY STONE, Lieut.. and A. A. A.
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