Letter of J. A. Seddon to M. J. Wright

Author: United States. War Dept.
Title: The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (1880 - 1901)
Other Title: Official records of the Union and Confederate armies
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Place of Publication: Washington
Location: Series 4, Volume 3, Page 694

Copied from: Cornell University's MoA Multivolume Monographs, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (1880 - 1901)

CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, WAR DEPARTMENT
Richmond, Va., September 30, 1864.

General M. J. WRIGHT,
Macon, Ga.:

The enlistment of Irish and other foreign prisoners, as proposed, is sanctioned.*

J. A. SEDDON,
Secretary of War.

[* This in reply to Wright, of September 29, 1864, reporting that a number of Catholic Irish prisoners, 1,000 or more, desired to enlist in the Confederate service, and asking "Shall it be done?" The paper is not found, but the foregoing purport is taken from the War Department telegrams-received book.]

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