[Third indorsement.] ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, October 24, 1862. Respectfully referred to Colonel Hoffman, commissary-general of prisoners. By order: E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant-General. [Fourth indorsement.] OCTOBER 27, 1862. Colonel Mulligan will be directed to report in person to the AdjutantGeneral of the Army and settle his accounts at Camp Douglas. H. W. HALLECK, General-in-Chief. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C., August 25, 1862. JOSEPH DARR, Jr., Provost-Marshal-General, Wheeling, Va.: Hon. Reuben Hitchcock, of Cleveland, has been appointed to investigate the cases of all prisoners at Camp Chase and is now on his way there. The twenty-nine persons arrested take to Camp Chase. L. C. TURNER, Judge-Advocate. OFFICE PROVOST-MARSHAL-GENERAL, Maj. L. C. TURNER, Judge-Advocate. Very respectfully, JOS. DARR, JR., Major and Provost-Marshal-General. LA FAYETTE, ONONDAGA COUNTY, N. Y., His Excellency Governor MORGAN. It is well known that the exposures on the island and the want of food caused much sickness and such prostration in many cases as to render it impossible for the prisoners-many of them-to march the distance required. Does not common humanity require that something should be done for their relief? 28 R R-SERIES II, VOL IV In arranging for the exchange was no provision made to bring away the sick and feeble? Should not such have been cared for first? Thinking that perhaps the matter had been overlooked by the Govern ment we call your attention to it, earnestly requesting that you will as soon as possible take such measures in their behalf as you think best. We have more than a general interest for two or three from our own town are among the number. We believe that it is unparalleled in the history of civilized warfare that men who have fought nobly for their country and have been taken prisoners on the field of battle should be overlooked or uncared for in an exchange of prisoners, and should be left shelterless on an island, exposed to the vertical rays of the sun and scarcely food enough to keep them alive simply because of the expense or trouble of providing a conveyance for them. We would not complain. If there is no relief we submit. The object of this communication is to call your attention to the facts, believing that you will do all in your power to secure their release. We are, very respectfully, yours, H. G. ANDREWS, E. PARK, L. BAKER, Town War Committee of La Fayette. [Indorsement.] EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Albany, August 28, 1862. Respectfully referred to Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War. E. D. MORGAN. HDQRS. MILITARY DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON, D. C., General DIX, Fort Monroe: August 26, 1862. Have you been able to do anything in regard to the exchange of civil prisoners? Please write. [JAMES S. WADSWORTH,] Brigadier-General. FORT MONROE, August 26, 1862. General WADSWORTH: I have written Mr. Ould a letter and have notice of its receipt. A flag of truce has gone up to-day with prisoners of war. I may learn something to-morrow. JOHN A. DIX, OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS, General L. THOMAS, Sandusky, Ohio, August 26, 1862. Adjutant-General U. S. Army, Washington, D. C. GENERAL: I have the honor to report that I have to-day directed the release of Col. W. A. Quarles, Forty-second Tennessee; Lieut. Col. W. T. Avery, First Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi; Maj. J. R. Kavanaugh, Ninth Louisiana, and Maj. J. S. Brown, Forty-sixth Tennessee, in exchange for Col. P. Kinney, Fifty-sixth Ohio Volunteers; Lieut. Col. A. Y. Johnson, Second [Twenty-eighth] Kentucky Infantry, and Majors W. A. Coffey and F. W. Helveti, First Kentucky Cavalry. Colonel Quarles has given his parole to report to the Confederate officer appointed to receive Confederate prisoners of war at or near Vicksburg on the 12th of September next, and the other Confederate officers are paroled to report at the same place on the 16th of September, on which day the exchange will be completed. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, W. HOFFMAN, Colonel Third Infantry, Commissary-General of Prisoners. [Copies of paroles inclosed omitted.] OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS, Maj. W. S. PIERSON, Sandusky, Ohio, August 26, 1862. Commanding Depot of Prisoners of War, Sandusky, Ohio. MAJOR: Col. P. Kinney, Fifty-sixth Ohio Volunteers; Lieut. Col. A. Y. Johnson, Twenty-eighth Kentucky Infantry, and Majs. W. A. Coffey and F. W. Helveti, First Kentucky Cavalry, will be exchanged for Col. W. A. Quarles, Forty-second Tennessee, Lieut. Col. W. T. Avery, First Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi, and Maj. J. S. Brown, Forty-sixth Tennessee, and Maj. J. R. Kavanaugh, Ninth Louisiana, respectively. To this end you will immediately send the four Confederate officers named, taking their paroles, to report to the Confederate officers appointed to receive Confederate prisoners of war at or near Vicksburg, Miss., the first named on or before the 12th proximo and the last three on or before the 16th proximo, on which days the exchange will be considered as complete. Colonel Quarles will be permitted to go via Saint Louis and Cairo and Major Brown via Louisville and Cairo by the river, unless authorized by the commander of the District of Kentucky to go via Paris, Tenn. The other officers will go directly to Cairo and thence by the river to Vicksburg. Let the parole be full to avoid detriment to the United States. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, W. HOFFMAN, Colonel Third Infantry, Commissary-General of Prisoners. OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS, Maj. W. S. PIERSON, Commanding Depot of Prisoners of War, Sandusky, Ohio. MAJOR: The Confederate prisoners of war now at the Sandusky depot will as soon as practicable be transferred via Cairo, Ill., to Vicksburg, Miss., for exchange. They will be prepared to leave at 6 o'clock on Friday morning, 29th, and will be accompanied by a guard of one company. All will be provided with three days' rations. You will have duplicate rolls of the prisoners prepared which will embrace all present, all on parole and all who may be left behind sick or otherwise, with appropriate remarks accounting for the absentees. You will see that these rolls are complete and accurately made up and will put your certificate to this effect on the back of them. They will be placed in the hands of the officer commanding the guard, who will deliver them and the prisoners on his arrival at Vicksburg to Capt. H. M. Lazelle, Eighth Infantry, U. S. Army, agent for the delivery of prisoners of war, to whom he will report for further orders. You will also place in the hands of the commander of the guard all moneys belonging to prisoners that may be in your possession with a certified account showing the amount due each individual, which money and account will be delivered to Captain Lazelle. You will instruct the commander of the guard to be very careful that none of his charge escape by the way and that they are not interfered with in any way at stopping-places on the route. On his arrival at Cairo he will report to the commanding officer and request that the company may be relieved from its duties as guard to prisoners by a detail from that post. On being relieved he will turn over to the officer who relieves him his instructions and all papers and moneys with which he may be intrusted and take receipts therefor. He will then return to his station. Direct your quartermaster to provide the necessary transportation, taking that route which will require the fewest changes of cars. Those prisoners who wish to take the oath of allegiance will be permitted to do so and will then be discharged. Duplicate rolls of all so discharged will be prepared and certified to by yourself, one copy to be sent to the Adjutant-General at Washington and the other to the commissary-general of prisoners at Detroit. Such prisoners will receive any money in your hands belonging to them. Those who belong to Tennessee regiments will be furnished with transportation to Nashville, Tenn., on their giving their parole to report to Governor Johnson. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, W. HOFFMAN, Colonel Third Infantry, Commissary-General of Prisoners. CAIRO, ILL., August 26, 1862. L. THOMAS, Adjutant-General U. S. Army: There is but one gun-boat (the Eastport) here. All others are at or below Helena. I intend leaving on Thursday with all prisoners from Camp Morton (about 3,500) with three transports and the Eastport as convoy to Helena, Ark., and thence to Vicksburg with two gun-boats. It will take eighteen days to return here with gun-boats. I am informed by the general commanding here that he has not the means to receive and to dispose of all the prisoners which may arrive up to that time unless they are placed on transports to await the return of the gunboats. This would be an expense of $200 each per day. I would respectfully suggest that the remainder of the prisoners not now sent be retained at their respective camps until the return of the transports and gun-boats, eighteen days, then all sent here and down the river at the same time. I await your orders. H. M. LAZELLE, Captain, Eighth Infantry. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., August 26, 1862. Col. W. HOFFMAN, Commissary-General of Prisoners. COLONEL: I have the honor to report that 1,238 prisoners were forwarded on Saturday with Captain Lazelle, U. S. Army; 773 on Sunday in charge of Captain Richardson, volunteers; 333 on Monday to Sandusky in charge of Lieutenant Lupton, volunteers. I forwarded to Sandusky all prisoners that were on the miscellaneous roll. Many of them were prisoners of war, isolated cases that had been sent here at different times and some who had arrived with the guerrillas. I ascertained yesterday that some eight or ten guerrillas had succeeded in imposing upon me and being transferred to Cairo by answering to the names of dead men in some of the organized regiments. The rolls not being accurate it was an imposition easily practiced. I could not prepare the rolls to forward the guerrillas on Sunday as directed. After all are forwarded as per roll there will a few remain who are not on the rolls. Shall they be forwarded to Sandusky? Please reply immediately. I forward the last detachment to Cairo to-morrow. Respectfully, your obedient servant, H. W. FREEDLEY, Captain, U. S. Army. GENERAL ORDERS, WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, No. 118. Washington, August 27, 1862. I. The following partial list of officers of the U. S. service who have been exchanged as prisoners of war for prisoners taken in arms against the United States is published for the information of all concerned: Brig. Gen. J. F. Reynolds, U. S. volunteers, for Brig. Gen. Lloyd Tilghman. Brig. Gen. G. A. McCall, U. S. volunteers, for General S. B. Buckner. Col. Michael Corcoran, Sixty-ninth New York State Militia, for Col. R. W. Hanson. Col. John R. Kenly, First Maryland Volunteers, for Col. [Adolphus] Heiman. Col. S. R. [O. B.] Willcox, [First Michigan Infantry], for Col. [John M.] Lillard, Twenty-sixth Mississippi [Tennessee]. Col. T. B. W. Stockton, Sixteenth Michigan Volunteers, for Col. L. B. Williams, First Virginia. Col. W. R. Brewster, Fourth Excelsior (New York volunteers), for Col. A. E. Reynolds, Twenty-sixth Mississippi. Col. J. H. Simpson, Fourth New Jersey Volunteers, for Col. A. H. Abernathy, Thirty-third [Fifty-third] Tennessee. Col. Thomas F. Gallagher, Eleventh Pennsylvania Volunteers [Reserves], for Col. J. E. Bailey, Forty-ninth Tennessee. Col. S. A. Dodge, Eighty-seventh New York Volunteers, for Col. A. J. Brown, Fifty-fifth Tennessee. Col. J. S. Norton, Twenty-first Ohio Volunteers, for Col. C. Dorsey, Mississippi [Missouri]. Col. E. C. Charles, Forty-second New York Volunteers, for Col. E. C. Cook, Thirty-second Tennessee. Col. W. W. Duffield, Ninth Michigan Volunteers, commanding Twenty-third Brigade, U. S. Army, for Col. R. Farquahaison [Farquharson], Forty-second [Forty-first] Tennessee. Lieut. Col. George Varney, Second Maine Volunteers, for Lieut. Col. C. B. Alexander, Second Missouri. Lieut. Col. S. M. Jackson, Eleventh Pennsylvania Volunteers [Reserves], for Lieut. Col. [F.] M. Boone, Twenty-sixth Mississippi. Lieut. Col. J. B. Sweitzer, Sixty-second Pennsylvania Volunteers, for Lieut. Col. W. E. Baldwin, Fourteenth Mississippi. Lieut. Col. W. B. Hatch, Fourth New York [Jersey] Volunteers, for Lieut. Col. M. B. Carter, Twentieth Tennessee. |