FORT MONROE, May 22,
1865.
Brevet Major-General Miles is hereby authorized and directed
to place manacles and fetters upon the hands and feet of Jefferson Davis and
Clement C. Clay whenever he may think it advisable in order to render their
imprisonment more secure.
By order of the Secretary of War:
C. A. DANA,
Assistant Secretary
of War.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series II Volume
8 (Serial No. 121), p. 565
