WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, July 8, 1863—6.45 p.m.
Major-General GRANT, Vicksburg, Miss.:
I fear your paroling
the garrison at Vicksburg without actual delivery to a proper agent, as
required by the fourteenth article of the cartel, may be construed into an
absolute release, and that the men will be immediately placed in the ranks of
the enemy. Such has been the case elsewhere. If these prisoners have not been
allowed to depart, you will retain them till further orders.
H. W. HALLECK,
General-in-Chief.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A
Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies,
Series I, Volume 24, Part 1 (Serial No. 36), p. 62
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