THE IMMORTAL SIX HUNDRED
could desire or expect, nor are we unnecessarily exposed to fire.
Respectfully, General, your obedient servants,
H. W. Wessells,
T. Seymour,
E. P. Scammon,
C. A. Heckman,
Alexander Shaler,
Brig.-Gens. U. S. Vols.
Prisoners of War.
(War Records, Vol. xxxv, p. 163.)
Charleston, S. C, July 1, 1864.
Brig.-Gen. L. Thomas,
Adjt.-Gen. U. S. A., Washington, D. C.
(Through Maj.-Gen. J. G. Foster, commanding
Department of the South,
Hilton Head, S. C.)
General:
We desire respectfully to represent through you to our authorities our firm belief that a prompt exchange of prisoners of war in the hands of the Southern Confederacy (if exchanges are to be made) is called for by every consideration of humanity. There are many thousands confined at southern points of the Confederacy in a climate to which they are unaccustomed, deprived of much of the food, clothing, and shelter they have habitually
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