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Rooms of the Committee on the Treatment of Prisoners of War and Union Citizens.
Washington, D.C., July 17, 1867.

In pursuance of a series of resolutions passed by the House of Representatives, July 10, 1867, the undersigned were appointed a committee to investigate the "Treatment of Prisoners of War and Union Citizens held by the Confederate authorities during the late rebellion."

All persons in possession of important information upon either of these subjects are earnestly requested to address the Committee, as directed below, stating:

First. The name, age, and post office address of the writer.
 
Second. If a soldier or seaman, his rank or position, and with what command he served. 

Third. A full statement of all facts known to the writer touching his own imprisonment or treatment, and that of others, either soldier or citizen, giving, as far as possible, names, places, and dates, with names of Confederate officers in charge.

Correspondents from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, and the States and Territories lying west of the Rocky Mountains, will please address

JOHN P. C. SHANKS, M. C. 
Washington D.C. 

Correspondents from Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, and the Territories east of the Rocky Mountains, will address 
WILLIAM A. PILE, M. C. 
St. Louis, Mo. 

Correspondents from Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Minnesota will address 
ABNER C. HARDING, M. C. 
Monmouth, IU. 

Correspondents from the New England States will address
AARON F. STEVENS, M. C. ,
Nashua, N. H. 

Correspondents from Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, and Tennessee will address
WILLIAM MUNGEN, M. C.,
Findlay, Ohio.   

Communications addressed to the members of the Committee will be free of postage. 

It is the intention of the Committee to collect all facts necessary to make a thorough official history of this subject. 

The various newspapers throughout the country are requested to give this Circular a gratuitous insertion, together with such notice as they may deem proper. 

JOHN D. LARRABEE, 
Clerk. 

JOHN P. C. SHANKS,
WILLIAM A. PILE, 
ABNER C. HARDING, 
AARON F. STEVENS, 
WILLIAM MUNGEN, 
Committee.