HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF
THE POTOMAC,
September 5, 1861.
Respectfully referred to the general commanding with a
recommendation that the seventeen prisoners referred to by General Dix be
transferred to some other place for' safekeeping; and I beg to repeat my
suggestion that some other suitable place be selected for keeping prisoners at
war that may be captured in future. For present purposes it seems to me that
Fort Independence, Boston Harbor, or Fort Adams, Newport, might suffice.
GEO. B. McCLELLAN,
Major-General, U.S.
Army.
