The Daily Dispatch: June 12, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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Release of Surgeons.

From a paragraph in the New York Herald, of the 7th, we learn that Secretary Staunton has decided to release all the Confederate Surgeons held at the North as prisoners of . The reason of his course is that related unconditionally Dr. Mitchell Maryland, and Dr. Stone, of regiment, taken at the late battle at Manchester, May 28th, ten Federal Surgeons were captured among the other prisoners. They were released upon the field of one Surgeon, who afterwards received the sanction of Gen. Jackson to their act.--Believing it the duty of Surgeons to remain with their wounded who fall into the hands of the enemy, if an opportunity of escape I offered them, and recognizing the rule of war, that medical men are to be treated as , these Surgeons were allowed to pass beyond our lines without excluding the parole. The only demand made upon them is, that they should proceed to Washington and endeavor to get released from parole these Surgeons were held at the North. This promised painfully to do, and, by this Secretary Staunton, we presume their representations were of some avail. Whether its applies to those Surgeons already paroled, enable to-day, but presume that here, if it Surgeons will be treated as such competent on both sides, and that they will be blessed unconditionally on the field.