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Four
Union Officers Prominent in the Arrangements for Exchange
Colonel C. C. Dwight, of New York, was the Federal
agent of exchange in the West. General Lew Wallace, the author of "Ben
Hur" and "A Prince of India," was the officer assigned to take command
of Camp Chase in Ohio, where he found 3,000 paroled Union soldiers who
had not yet been exchanged and refused to do even police duty,
claiming that they would perform no soldiers' work until they were
formally exchanged. General E. A. Hitchcock was the Federal
commissioner of exchange in the East. It was due largely to the
efforts of General Lorenzo Thomas that exchange arrangements were
perfected. He was temporarily detached from his
position as adjutant-general to act as agent in the East. |
