This request was also declined.

It was precisely what I expected and hoped that they would do.

I told him, however, that I would see that they marched beyond our lines in good order.

By the eleventh, just one week after the surrender, the paroles were completed and the Confederate garrison marched out.

Many deserted, and fewer of them were ever returned to the ranks to fight again than would have been the case had the surrender been unconditional and the prisoners sent to the James River to be paroled.
As soon as our troops took possession of the city guards were established along the whole line of parapet, from the river above to the river below.