every year. Rebel flags are thrown from the windows of houses in this city with impunity, and I countermanded the order for arrests. J. T. BOYLE, Brigadier-General. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, September 15, 1862. Major-General MCCLELLAN: General Wool has been directed to receive all prisoners turned over to him at Frederick or remove them to Fort Delaware. H. W. HALLECK, HEADQUARTERS, Fort Monroe, Va., September 15, 1862. Hon. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. SIR: Maj. William H. Ludlow, of my staff, who will hand you this note, has just returned from Aiken's Landing with 5,100 released prisoners, all of whom with the exception of a few hundred may by exchange be made immediately available in the field. I telegraphed to General Halleck that I had undertaken the release on my own responsibility, there being no agent here. His conferences with Mr. Ould were of so much importance that I have thought it best he should proceed at once to Washington to see you, General Halleck and General Thomas. I nominated the major to you some ten days ago as my inspector-general, a position he has earned by efficient and valuable services. I am, very respectfully, yours, JOHN A. DIX, FORT MONROE, September 15, 1862. Major-General HALLECK, General-in-Chief: Five thousand one hundred paroled prisoners have gone to Annapolis. They can be exchanged immediately. Major Ludlow, my aide, who received them, is on his way to Washington to report to you. JOHN A. DIX, WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, September 15, 1862. His Excellency Governor BUCKINGHAM, Hartford, Conn.: A parole given to the Confederates must be respected and the man released if drafted. By order of the Secretary of War: C. P. BUCKINGHAM, Brigadier-General and Assistant Adjutant-General, HEADQUARTERS ROLLA DIVISION, [Brig. Gen. J. M. SCHOFIELD.] GENERAL: You will perceive by inclosed statement* from Major Gallup that the officers who did the killing of prisoners at Waynesville * See letter of Glover, September 18, with inclosures, p. 532. are now ordered to Saint Louis to be mustered out. The killing I presume is very aggravated. I have promised Colonel Sigel to retain the report until I receive his written statement, which will be in a few days, at which time I will forward the result of the investigation. I do this that you may delay the muster out of those officers if you think proper. Your obedient servant, General L. THOMAS: J. M. GLOVER, Colonel, Commanding Division. DETROIT, MICH., September 15, 1862. Two hundred and thirty-five prisoners from New Mexico, via Fort Leavenworth, were sent from Camp Douglas to Vicksburg for exchange. [W. HOFFMAN, Commissary-General of Prisoners.] Hon. E. M. STANTON: COLUMBUS, OHIO, September 16, 1862. Referring to our telegraphic correspondence on the subject of ordering the paroled Union prisoners to Minnesota to quell the Indian disturbance allow me to add that we have now over 4,000 men in a very demoralized state for want of organization. Brigadier-General Cooper is here and could superintend the movement. Grier is also here and could aid in the matter. Lieutenant-Colonel DAVID TOD. DETROIT, September 16, 1862. General L. THOMAS, Adjutant-General: Are political prisoners at Fort Lafayette and other eastern stations to be sent to Sandusky City? W. HOFFMAN, Commissary-General of Prisoners. HDQRS. OF THE ARMY, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, September 16, 1862. Col. W. HOFFMAN, Detroit: Prisoners at eastern stations are not yet to be sent. L. THOMAS, Adjutant-General. HDQRS. FIRST DIVISION, DEPT. OF EAST TENNESSEE, Brig. Gen. G. W. MORGAN, Commanding U. S. Forces, Cumberland Gap. September 16, 1862. GENERAL: Your very courteous letter* of the 14th instant inclosing list of prisoners paroled by you I had the honor to receive last evening. I trust, general, you will do me the justice to believe that I am incapable of such a motive as that alluded to in your letter. Your flag *Not found. reached my lines just before sunset, and finding that the list of prisoners was a long one and that there were many important objections to it which could not then be explained I without thinking of the injustice which for peculiar reasons it might be to you declined to receive them that night. I regret that under the circumstances I did not propose to receive them with the condition that the errors in rating, &c., should be corrected thereafter. Your action, general, in the case of Leroy Brown I properly appreciate. I have the honor to be, with much respect, your obedient servant, HDQRS. FIRST DIVISION, DEPT. OF EAST TENNESSEE, Brig. Gen. G. W. MORGAN, Commanding U. S. Forces, Cumberland Gap. September 16, 1862. GENERAL: Some days ago a negro boy came to our pickets and reported that he belonged to a lady in Mississippi; had been captured near Barboursville by the Federal cavalry, taken to the Gap and made to serve an officer there; that he sought the first opportunity to escape and brought off a horse equipped and two pistols belonging to the officer, Colonel Phillips, with whom he had been placed. He was received and permitted to dispose of the property for his benefit. On yesterday I was told that Colonel Gallup stated that the boy came voluntarily to the Gap, represented himself to be free and tendered his services to the officer. Under the circumstances I have ordered that the property be returned to Colonel Phillips. The horse and equipage will be sent to-day; the pistols as soon as they can be obtained from the holder who I believe is within my lines. I have the honor to be, respectfully, your obedient servant, C. L. STEVENSON, Brigadier-General, Commanding. HDQRS. FIRST DIVISION, DEPT. OF EAST TENNESSEE, Brig. Gen. G. W. MORGAN, Commanding U. S. Forces, Cumberland Gap. September 16, 1862. GENERAL: I have the honor to deliver with this twenty-three prisoners of war and two citizens employed by the quartermaster's department, U. S. Army. I inclose herewith a list* of their names. It is not stated by whom they were paroled. I will exchange the prisoners agreeably to your proposition of yesterday as soon as the necessary papers therefor can be perfected. For the citizens I send to-day I ask no exchange. Upon what terms will you exchange Mr. A. L. McAfee, paroled and left at Pine Knot? I have the honor to be, with much respect, your obedient servant, C. L. STEVENSON, Brigadier-General, Commanding. * Omitted. FREDERICK CITY, September 16, 1862. Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, General-in-Chief: Arrived here in command of the First Brigade, composed of the Thirty-ninth, One hundred and eleventh, One hundred and fifteenth New York, Sixty-fifth Illinois, Fifteenth Illinois [Indiana] Battery, about 3,000 men in all, from Harper's Ferry. Officers and men have been paroled. I await orders where to go with troops. Men eager to be exchanged. Thirty-ninth New York and Sixty-fifth Illinois old troops. F. G. D'UTASSY, Colonel, Commanding Brigade. General L. THOMAS, ON GUN-BOAT LEXINGTON, Near Vicksburg, Miss., September 16, 1862. * Adjutant-General U. S. Army, Washington City, D. C. GENERAL: I have the honor to inclose to you a list of arms given me by the agent of the Confederate States for the exchange of prisoners, which list is in the form of a receipt given to the prisoners of war for them at Camp Morton, Indianapolis. The prisoners have given this paper to their agent with the request that he should make the effort to procure the arms. I have not expressed to him any opinion as to how far these may be regarded as side-arms or the right which they may have to retain them but informed him that the papers should be submitted to you. I also inclose a lettert addressed to Major Watts, agent of the Confederate States for exchange of prisoners, upon the same subject. With the highest respect, I am, general, your obedient servant, Captain, Eighth Infantry, U. S. Army. MONOCACY, MD., September 16, 1862. General M. C. MEIGS: Paroled prisoners from Harper's Ferry arrive here hourly. No accommodations for them here. Will you authorize me to pass them over the railroad to Baltimore, Washington or any other place you may designate? Blank passes will be required for that purpose which I would request to be forwarded to me at once. JOHN C. CRANE, Captain and Assistant Quartermaster. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, September 17, 1862. Col. WILLIAM HOFFMAN, Commissary-General of Prisoners. COLONEL: Of the 11,999 paroled prisoners reported by you in camp this day designate the camps and the number in each and make immediate report. Your obedient servant, EDWIN M. STANTON, "Omitted. t Not found. INDIANAPOLIS, September 17, 1862. General L. THOMAS, Adjutant-General: Will you please make early arrangements for the exchange of the Indiana troops who were taken prisoners at Richmond, Ky. I desire to have them in the field at the earliest moment possible. O. P. MORTON, Governor. [SEPTEMBER 17, 1862.-For reports, correspondence, &c., relating to the surrender of the Union forces at Munfordville, Ky., to General Bragg, C. S. Army, see Series I, Vol. XVI, Part I, pp. 959-990, and Part II. p. 518 et seq.] WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, September 17, 1862. Major-General WOOL, Baltimore: Instructions from the War Department will be sent you in relation to our paroled prisoners. H. W. HALLECK, WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, September 17, 1862. Maj. Gen. LEW. WALLACE, Cincinnati, Ohio: The Secretary of War directs that you immediately repair to Columbus, Ohio, and organize the paroled prisoners now there and those to be immediately sent to that place into regiments and brigades for service against the Northern Indians. Officers will be sent to you as soon as possible. H. W. HALLECK, HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, Brig. Gen. M. JEFF. THOMPSON, Commanding, &c. 'GENERAL: Your flag of truce accrediting Captain Shaw with letter and inclosures relating to an exchange of prisoners was duly entertained yesterday. Your authorities are wholly misinformed upon the subject of those inclosures. I have never refused the exchange of prisoners paroled or otherwise held. Inclosed find a copy of my general orders* upon this topic and the orders issuing from the proper officers of my command. On the contrary my action has been taken without waiting for an official copy of the general cartel, which I have not yet received. I have indeed applied informally by a bearer of the flag of truce with Mrs. Clark upon the subject. It would be exceedingly inconvenient and expensive to both parties to transport the prisoners held here and by you for exchange to Vicksburg. If there is no objection to it I would propose that the prisoners be delivered at a more convenient point. If an exchange is effected I would propose to place the prisoners at any point on the lake or river *Not found. |