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Rebel prisoners and the BMI at Gettysburg

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10-31-2005, 09:02 PM

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Rebel prisoners and the BMI at Gettysburg

This is an interesting article about General Meade's Bureau of Military Intelligence at Gettysburg, and the issue of obtaining valuable military info from Confederate POW's.

http://washingtontimes.com/civilwar/...426r_page2.htm

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11-26-2005, 07:06 AM

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Some Confederates must not have known much. Lots of men captured at Gettysburg remained in Fort Delaware until 1865.

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