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The policy of the War Department in not exchanging prisoners

  • Whitman Archive Title: The policy of the War Department in not exchanging prisoners
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.00930
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
  • Box: 32
  • Folder: ca. 1864, "The Policy of the War Department in Not Exchanging Prisoners"
  • Series: Literary File
  • Date: 1864
  • Genre: prose
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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  • Content: A short draft on the exchange of the prisoners of war, the last paragraph of which was revised and printed on 27 December 1864 in both "The Prisoners" New-York Times and "What Stops the General Exchange of Prisoners of War?—Three-fourths of Our Men Already Exchanged by Death, or Mental and Bodily Ruin, and the Rest will Soon Follow" Brooklyn Daily Eagle .
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