Gen. Howell Cobb has been sent down the river under flag of truce
to negotiate a cartel with Gen. Dix for the exchange of prisoners. It was
decided that the exchange should be conducted on the basis agreed to between
the United States and the British Government during the war of 1812, and all
men taken hereafter will be released on parole within ten days after their
capture. We have some 8000 prisoners in this city, and altogether, I dare say, a
larger number than the enemy have of our men.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 143
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