Prisoner Exchanges late in the War

[66TH Indiana]

I have always wondered when the prisoner exchange program broke down or did it ?
Just read where George Stoneman was exchanged fairly late in the war - late 1864.

Stoneman and his aide, Myles Keogh, were captured by Confederate soldiers outside Macon, Georgia, becoming the highest ranking Union prisoner of war. He was a prisoner for three months.
Stoneman was exchanged relatively quickly based on the personal request of Sherman to the Confederates and he returned to duty. wikipedia

Was there a trade of some kind involved here ? Were officers normally not held as the other
soldiers at such places as Andersonville?

 

[huskerblitz]

Didn't Grant end the practice to keep captured soldiers returning to the Confederate ranks?

 

[East Tennessee Roots]

I have always wondered when the prisoner exchange program broke down or did it ?
Just read where George Stoneman was exchanged fairly late in the war - late 1864.

Stoneman and his aide, Myles Keogh, were captured by Confederate soldiers outside Macon, Georgia, becoming the highest ranking Union prisoner of war. He was a prisoner for three months.
Stoneman was exchanged relatively quickly based on the personal request of Sherman to the Confederates and he returned to duty. wikipedia

Was there a trade of some kind involved here ? Were officers normally not held as the other
soldiers at such places as Andersonville?

General Stoneman and Stonewall Jackson were very close. So he was probably good friends with a number of other Confederate officers. In fact he returned Stonewall's horse " Little Sorrel " to Mrs. Jackson during the raid he led through east Tennessee, western North Carolina, and southwest Virginia at he end of the war. The widowed Mrs. Jackson was with her family in North Carolina. Some of his troopers took the horse, and he returned it. I've always understood Grant knew he couldn't keep paroling Confederates back to the army he was trying to destroy. The aide, Myles Keogh later died with Custer on the Little Bighorn.

 

[ErnieMac]

The Dix-Hill Cartel, negotiated in July 1862, governed prisoner exchanges. It was named for the two generals who finalized the agreement - Major General John A Dix for the Union and Major General Daniel Harvey Hill for the Confederacy. It remained in force for the balance of the war, but was suspended for periods of time in 1863 and 1864 because of disagreements and distrust between the parties. The attached wiki article provides a lot of details.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dix–Hill_Cartel

 

[Copperhead-mi]

I have always wondered when the prisoner exchange program broke down or did it ?
Just read where George Stoneman was exchanged fairly late in the war - late 1864.

Stoneman and his aide, Myles Keogh, were captured by Confederate soldiers outside Macon, Georgia, becoming the highest ranking Union prisoner of war. He was a prisoner for three months.
Stoneman was exchanged relatively quickly based on the personal request of Sherman to the Confederates and he returned to duty. wikipedia

Was there a trade of some kind involved here ? Were officers normally not held as the other
soldiers at such places as Andersonville?

POW exchanges were suspended by the U.S. in 1863, following the Battle of Chickamauga when General Thomas captured large numbers of Confederates who had been prisoners that Grant had previously paroled at Vicksburg and Port Hudson. Individual commanders however continued to arrange exchanges until Secretary of War Stanton called a halt to all exchanges during mid-August 1864 when the Confederates continued in their refusal to treat USCTs as POWs. Even so, special individual exchanges continued up until the end of the War.

 

[rpkennedy]

Pfft, the Union should have let the Confederates keep George Stoneman.

R

 

[East Tennessee Roots]

Pfft, the Union should have let the Confederates keep George Stoneman.

R

Stoneman suffered from the " Cavalryman's Curse " hemorrhoids !!!! They were so bad during his raid into North Carolina, he rode around in a buggy. I also believe Hooker tried to make him a scapegoat for Chancellorsville. He had a good deal of tough luck !