Friday, December 17, 2010

The Secretary of War . . .

. . . on the application of Mr. Ely, Member of Congress, has ordered the release of Col. W. F. Baldwin, of Virginia, to be exchanged for Col. Corcoran.  Two officers released from Richmond made representations to the President and Secretary of War which led to this result.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 1

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