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John A. Dix letter May 25, 1863

Fort Monroe, May 25, 1863.
Major-General Halleck, General-in-Chief :
I request that no officers may be sent from Fort McHenry or else where here for confinement. Fort Wool is given up to the engineers. We have nothing but a small guard-house at Fort Monroe and we have no other place except Fort Norfolk, which has always a large number of political prisoners and soldiers under sentence or awaiting trial.
JOHN A. DIX,
Major-General.

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55th Congress 3d Session House of Representatives Document No. 311
The War of the Rebellion: A compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies.
Published under the direction of the Hon. Russell A. Alger, Secretary of War,
By Col. Fred C. Ainsworth, U.S. Army, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Civilian Expert, and Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley, Civilian Expert, Board of Publication.
Series II – Volume V
Washington: Government printing office.
1899