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 General Butler also produced upon another occasion the following telegram, which ought to be conclusive on this question:

We think that the above testimony settles beyond all controversy that General U. S. Grant, Secretary Stanton, and Mr. Lincoln, were responsible for the refusal to exchange prisoners in 1864.

But the following extract from the

before the Committee on the Conduct of the War, given February 11th, 1865, may be added as an end of controversy on this point: