not the case please return it to me. You had better perhaps return it to me whether it is so or not and then I can arrange everything here and correct it. Please do so at once. My address is American House, Columbus. Did you send my telegram to Captain Freedley? Did he receive it? Very respectfully, your obedient servant, H. M. LAZELLE, Captain, Eighth Infantry. GENERAL ORDERS, WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, July 26, 1862. No. 90. I. The principle being recognized that chaplains should not be held as prisoners of war it is hereby ordered that all chaplains so held by the United States shall be immediately and unconditionally discharged. * By order of the Secretary of War: L. THOMAS, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Brig. Gen. W. S. KETCHUM, Saint Louis, Mo.: It is represented that paroled prisoners at Benton Barracks are made to do duty violating their parole. The Secretary of War directs you to examine into and report on this and to stop it. L. THOMAS, Adjutant-General. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, July 26, 1862. Maj. Gen. JOHN A. DIX, Commanding Fort Monroe, Va. GENERAL: The Secretary of War directs me to inform you that no inclosures accompanied your letter of the 23d instant in which you state that you return all papers sent to you relating to the negotiations for a general exchange of prisoners of war by Generals Wool and McClellan, and that these papers have not yet been otherwise received at this Department. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, C. P. WOLCOTT, Assistant Secretary of War. HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, Commanding U. S. Army. GENERAL: I have seen to-day nearly a thousand of our sick and wounded just returned from Richmond. Some refugees have also arrived and a number of surgeons and chaplains taken prisoners at Bull Run. All of these who have enjoyed any opportunities of observation unite in stating that re-enforcements are pouring into Richmond from the South. I have, &c., G. B. MCCLELLAN, Major-General, U. S. Army. His Excellency A. LINCOLN: NASHVILLE, July 26, 1862. In the exchange of prisoners reported soon to take place all Tennessee prisoners who are not willing to take the oath of allegiance and enter into bonds, &c., should be exchanged first, and if there should be any left I hope they will be at once released upon taking the oath, &c., and permitted to return to their homes. I hope the Tennessee prisoners will be held up for the last, except those who are deserving of being sent back to the rebel army. Let them go. The expense and burden of the rebellion must be felt by rebels. I wish the commanding general of this department would issue an order like that recently issued by General Pope, which is universally approved by the Unionists of Tennessee. We have all come to the conclusion here that treason must be made odious and traitors punished and impoverished. I am doing the best I can. ANDREW JOHNSON, Military Governor. HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF VIRGINIA, Brig. Gen. RUFUS KING, Fredericksburg: General Orders, No. 11, directing arrest of all disloyal citizens, and to which you refer in your dispatch of this morning, has been sent to you by the boat which left this morning. Do not act until you shall have received the official order. By command of Major-General Pope: GEO. D. RUGGLES, Colonel and Chief of Staff. HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF VIRGINIA, Brig. Gen. RUFUS KING, Fredericksburg, Va.: I wish another person arrested and sent here to replace Mr. Barton who has been paroled on medical certificate of infirmity from old age. JNO. POPE, Major-General, Commanding. Hon. E. M. STANTON: FORT MONROE, [July 26,] 1862. I returned this afternoon from Harrison's Landing. The meeting at Aiken's took place yesterday. Mr. Ould, a private citizen and late district attorney at Washington, is the agent of the Confederates. General McClellan will send Colonel Key on Monday to meet Mr. Ould and explain the cause of delay in making out the rolls. General Franklin is not very well. It is thought important and General Halleck concurs that Colonel Key should be able to say to Mr. Ould on Monday that transports have been ordered to Fort Delaware to receive the prisoners there and bring them on as soon as practicable. General Halleck has just left for Washington. 19 R R-SERIES II, VOL IV JOHN A. DIX, Major-General. CIRCULAR.] HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE MISSISSIPPI, July 26, 1862. The term paroled prisoners used in Special Orders, No. 143, Headquarters District of West Tennessee, Corinth, Miss., July 24, 1862, refers to U. S. soldiers paroled by the rebels. By order of General Rosecrans: W. L. ELLIOTT, Brigadier-General and Chief of Staff. HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEE, Maj. Gen. T. C. HINDMAN, C. S. Army. Memphis, Tenn., July 26, 1862. GENERAL: Yours of July 21 has just reached me. General Grant is not here at present, but I at once promise to the families of Lieutenant-Colonel Johnson and others free and unobstructed passage beyond our lines toward Little Rock. I prefer that Surgeon White should not remain, but all the families will be allowed to depart with their escort, their servants and their household goods, and I will cause one of my aides to visit the families named with your letter to show them that you advise them to come to Little Rock. Very respectfully, W. T. SHERMAN, [JULY 26, 1862.-For Maj. Gen. O. M. Mitchel to the Secretary of War concerning the return of slaves to their masters after being promised protection from the U. S. forces and the resultant correspondence, see Series I, Vol. XVI, Part II, pp. 583–586.] SPECIAL ORDers, HDQRS. U. S. FORCES IN KENTUCKY, IX. Major Mansfield will repair immediately with his battalion to Russellville, Ky., reporting to Colonel Bruce, commanding at Bowling Green. He will proceed to put down all rebel bands in Logan and adjoining counties, shooting down those found in arms as guerrillas, disarming all disloyal citizens and turning over their arms to those who are loyal. By command of Brigadier-General Boyle: JOHN BOYLE, Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General. GENERAL ORDERS, HDQRS. CENTRAL DIV. OF THE MISS., I. The general commanding has undoubted knowledge that the sympathizers with this rebellion within the limits of this command are aiding in a species of warfare unknown to the laws and customs of war, the suppression of which calls for more rigorous and decisive measures than have been heretofore adopted. The allowing of bands of guerrillas to encamp in the neighborhood without giving information of the fact, the firing upon pickets, the feeding of parties who are hiding from our forces and the carrying of information to and from the enemy have become matters of daily occurrence. It is therefore ordered II. That any neighborhood, town or village that allows marauding bands or guerrillas to remain or camp near them without immediately sending word to the nearest military post will be levied upon, and a certain portion of the property of all known sympathizers of this rebellion that can be used by the U. S. forces, to be determined by the commander of the division, will be taken, and the citizens will be held personally responsible for the acts of the band. Where pickets are fired into the sympathizers of the rebellion being near the place will be arrested and held until the guilty party is brought to light, and when any injury is done the picket there will be assessed upon the disloyal citizens living near the place an amount not exceeding $10,000, as the commanding general may determine. III. Citizens who encourage returned soldiers and deserters to hide in the woods and form bands to return to the rebel army will be arrested and held responsible for all depredations committed by these bands; and when it comes to the knowledge of any of the commanders of posts of this command that returned soldiers or deserters are lurking about, hiding and not coming forward as required they will arrest and hold for hostage the nearest disloyal relative to the soldier, such person to be held as hostage till the soldier delivers himself or is delivered up. IV. Any person, white or black, free or slave, who brings reliable information of guerrilla bands, marauding parties and of citizens who are breaking any provisions of this order, which information proving to be of benefit to the U. S. forces, will receive a liberal reward. If a slave he will be guaranteed against receiving punishment for bringing such information. By order of Brig. Gen. G. M. Dodge: GEO. M. REEDER, Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General. QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Col. WILLIAM HOFFMAN, Commissary-General of Prisoners, Washington, D. C. COLONEL: The inclosed* requisition of Capt. A. A. Gibson, Second Artillery, commanding at Fort Delaware, for a safe and asking the erection of a bakery is respectfully referred to you. The case of the bake-house ought to be paid out of the savings of the prisoners' rations. A safe if provided should be paid for in the same way. By order: E. S. SIBLEY, Brevet Colonel, U. S. Army, and Deputy Quartermaster-General. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, July 27, 1862. Adjutant-General THOMAS. GENERAL: You will please act as agent for the exchange of prisoners of war on the part of the United States under the agreement between Major-General Dix and Major-General Hill. * Omitted. You will take measures to have the prisoners in the East transferred for exchange at Aiken's, on the James River, and those in the West to be exchanged at or near Vicksburg as agreed upon. You will communicate with General McClellan and inform him of your directions and the measures you are taking to execute the agree ment. Quartermaster-General U. S. Army, Washington, D. C. SIR: The Secretary of War directs that you provide to-day if possible transports to take the prisoners of war from Fort Delaware to Aiken's, on the James River, to be exchanged. There are from 3,000 to 4,000. I am, sir, &c., E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant-General. HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Brig. Gen. L. THOMAS, Adjutant-General U. S. Army, Washington, D. C. SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of a communication from General R. E. Lee dated the 24th instant, received by a flag of truce, together with a copy of my reply, and I respectfully request that the War Department will furnish me at the earliest possible moment with the information necessary to answer General Lee's inquiries respecting the confinement of Captain Walker, lately commanding the steamer Theodora, who is said to be in irons. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, [GEO. B. MCCLELLAN,] Major-General, Commanding. [Inclosure No. 1.] HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, Maj. Gen. GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN, July 24, 1862. Commanding Army of the Potomac. GENERAL: Information of a trustworthy character has been received that Capt. George D. Walker, of Wilmington, N. C., lately commanding the steamer Theodora, who was captured with his vessel and a cargo of arms and ammunition by the U. S. Blockading Squadron off Cape Fear, is kept in irons in Fort Columbus. Having no knowledge of the case beyond this report I am directed to request that you will cause inquiry to be made and give me information of the facts. The arms and ammunition on board the Theodora were intended for the use of the Government of the Confederate States. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, |