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The Daily Confederate
Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina
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Report from Fortress Monroe on the resumption of prisoner exchanges managed by Major John E. Mulford, with optimism for a general agreement between Union and Confederate officials amid descriptions of horrific conditions in Southern prisons.
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The correspondent of the New York Herald writes from Fortress Monroe:
The exchange of prisoners, under the management of Major John E. Mulford, Assistant Commissioner of Exchange, deputy to Major-General Butler, is again in fair way of being successfully resumed. Great hopes are entertained that a fair and honorable cartel will now be agreed upon between our government and Colonel Robert Ould for the general exchange of prisoners. The suffering among our officers and men confined in Georgia and South Carolina dungeons is described as perfectly horrible, and is even worse than Libby prison or Castle Thunder. In the name of suffering humanity let our government do all in its power to release our men from a living death. The rebels seem to be willing to exchange, and certainly we should not be so very punctilious on the subject.
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Fortress Monroe
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suffering among union officers and men in georgia and south carolina prisons described as perfectly horrible, worse than libby prison or castle thunder; hopes for general exchange to release them from a living death.
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The exchange of prisoners is resuming under Major Mulford's management, with great hopes for a fair cartel agreement between the Union government and Colonel Ould. Rebels appear willing to exchange, and the Union should act to alleviate the horrific conditions in Southern dungeons.