other refugees, subsisting on the charity of the citizens. Everything at home has been destroyed. I am much worn from exposure and hardship, but hold myself subject to the orders of your department. The reason I have not reported myself in person I think is apparent to every husband and father. I am, very respectfully, yours, E. T. TILLOTSON. P. S.-Your early answer is respectfully solicited. GENERAL ORDERS, HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE CUMBERLAND, No. 15. The general commanding is pained to learn that many soldiers have sought and allowed themselves to be captured and paroled by the enemy to escape from further military duty and in order to be sent home. He esteems such conduct as even more base and cowardly than desertion, which though punishable by law with death has a semblance of courage when contrasted with voluntary capture. All soldiers so captured and paroled will in future be placed under arrest and reported to these headquarters. All soldiers captured and paroled while straggling from their commands will be dealt with in like manner. By command of Major-General Rosecrans: J. P. GARESCHE, Assistant Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, His Excellency S. J. KIRKWOOD, Governor of Iowa, Iowa City. GOVERNOR: A new commissioner for the exchange of prisoners has been appointed and it is hoped that the matters complained of may be remedied. All your communications on the subject will be brought to his notice. I understand that most of the prisoners referred to by you have been exchanged, but that there has been some unavoidable delay in making out the rolls. Moreover, lists made out by colonels of regiments are frequently very erroneous and defective and that delays are frequently caused by neglect of regimental officers. If the enemy has neglected to send forward any prisoners or still retains them contrary to the terms of the cartel we have no power to correct the evil other than by calling the attention of the Confederate commissioner to this neglect, which has already been done. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, H. W. HALLECK, OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS, Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War, Washington, D. C. SIR: I have the honor to report that there are 898 prisoners of war at Johnson's Island subject to exchange, 99 at Camp Chase and 351 at the military prison at Alton, making in all 1,348. Rolls of these prisoners were sent to Aiken's Landing to be included in the recent exchanges if the rebel authorities would receive them. They are all of irregular or State organizations and the cartel provides only for the exchange of prisoners belonging to the Confederate Army. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, W. HOFFMAN, Colonel Third Infantry, Commissary-General of Prisoners. OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS, Washington, D. C., November 15, 1862. Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War, Washington, D. C. SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith rolls* of the prisoners of war now at the depot, Johnson's Island, Camp Chase and the Alton prison. These rolls were furnished to the Adjutant-General with a view to the exchange of these prisoners. The following extract from my letter of the 12th of September to the Adjutant-General will show the character of these men: OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS, Detroit, Mich., September 12, 1862. General L. THOMAS, Adjutant-General U. S. Army, Washington, D. C. GENERAL: There are a number of prisoners of war at Sandusky who claim to belong to the Confederate Army and to have the right of exchange. Some belong to Morgan's men, others to Morehead's and some are Virginia and Missouri troops; some are on the rolls as recruits, citizens, &c. There are a number who desire to take the oath of allegiance and some wish to be released on parole. I respectfully desire instructions as to the proper course to be pursued in these cases. Colonel Third Infantry, Commissary-General of Prisoners. DETROIT, November 15, 1862. Col. WILLIAM HOFFMAN, Commissary-General of Prisoners, Washington, D. C. COLONEL: Confused and conflicting statements in reference to the exchange of prisoners, both officers and men, captured and paroled at Murfreesborough, Tenn., on the 13th of July last by Colonel Forrest, C. S. Army, induce the necessity of troubling you with this note. On the 27th of last August General Orders, No. 118, issued from War Department, Adjutant-General's Office, over the signature of Brig. Gen. L. Thomas, announced the following in reference to the Ninth Michigan Volunteers. On page 1: 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: Col. William W. Duffield, Ninth Michigan Volunteers, commanding Twenty-third Brigade, U. S. Army, for Col. R. Farquharson, Forty-second [Forty-first] Tennessee. On page 10: First Lieut. Henry M. Duffield, assistant adjutant-general, for First Lieut. Isaac Pipkin, Thirty-first North Carolina. * Omitted. On page 12: First Lieuts. L. J. Wright and Hiram Barrows, Ninth Michigan Volunteers, and Second Lieut. A. P. Dickinson, Ninth Michigan Volunteers, for Lieut. Col. E. Pendleton, Third Louisiana [Battalion]. On page 20: Enlisted men captured at Murfreesborough, Tenn., by General Forrest fully exchanged. A detachment of the enlisted men of the Ninth Michigan Volunteers and who were supposed to have been fully exchanged under the last clause quoted from the above order have since rejoined their regiment and are now at Bowling Green, Ky. They went back to their regiment and still are under apprehensions that they have not in fact been exchanged, which apprehensions grew out of the fact that a telegraph was received by Captain Fosses, inspector of cavalry at Louisville, on the 7th or 8th instant, signed by Brigadier-General Thomas, stating that the Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, who were embraced under the clause quoted from page 20 of General Orders, No. 118, above referred to, and who were captured at same time and place with Ninth Michigan Volunteers, were not exchanged, they having up to that time supposed themselves fully exchanged under said order, and being then on their way to join their regiment under General Rosecrans. The doubt therefore which arises relative to the enlisted men of the Ninth Michigan Volunteers is this: If the paroled prisoners of the Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry who were included in the last clause quoted from General Orders, No. 118, were not exchanged may it not be that the enlisted men of the Ninth Michigan Volunteers are also still unexchanged? The great importance to the men and to the service induces me to ask an early solution of this doubt. Will you be kind enough to investigate this matter and let me hear from you as soon as possible? The next inquiry relates to myself and Lieut. Henry M. Duffield, assistant-adjutant-general on my staff, but adjutant of the Ninth Michigan Volunteers, First Lieut. L. J. Wright and Second Lieut. A. P. Dickinson, of Ninth Michigan Volunteers. Am I and are they exchanged or not? The Orders, No. 118, by its terms exchanges myself and them, but at Louisville, Ky., I was advised of a telegraph addressed to Captain Fosses from your department stating that no paroled officer had as yet been exchanged. Also on the 8th instant a telegraph was addressed by General J. T. Boyle, of Louisville, at my instance, to Brig. Gen. L. Thomas, Adjutant-General U. S. Army, asking if the six companies Ninth Michigan Volunteers captured at Murfreesborough in July last were exchanged and whether they should be sent into the field, to which a reply was received from yourself under date of November 10 that the six companies Ninth Michigan Volunteers have not been exchanged. In reply to a second dispatch from General Boyle asking where the enlisted men of Ninth Michigan Volunteers should be sent and stating that one company was then in actual service and in the advance at Bowling Green, a dispatch was received from yourself dated November 11 stating that enlisted men captured at Murfreesborough by General Forrest were fully exchanged. Capt. M. Mansfield and Lieut. Hiram Barrows, Ninth Michigan Volunteers, are exchanged. Paroled troops not exchanged go to Camp Wallace, Columbus, Ohio. Copies of these telegraphs are herewith inclosed. The critical situation of both officers and men under these circumstances and the necessity of that certainty of information which cannot always be had by telegraph compels me to solicit from you at as early a day as possible a full reply by letter to the inquiries herein made, viz: First, are the enlisted men of Ninth Michigan Volunteers exchanged or not? If not, shall they be at once withdrawn from the advance and sent to Camp Wallace, Ohio? Second, am I exchanged or not? Third, are Lieuts. Henry M. Duffield, Leonard J. Wright and A. P. Dickinson exchanged or not? Fourth, if exchanged shall they at once rejoin their regiments in the field? Do they not require a certificate from your department showing the fact of their actual exchange and an order to rejoin their regiment? They have all three been on active duty in the field since the 13th September last. Fifth, the cartel as to exchange of prisoners, last clause article 4, provides: That the exchange is not to be considered complete until the officer or soldier exchanged for has been actually restored to the lines to which he belongs. Section 4, article 6: That no officer, soldier or employé in the service of either party is to be considered as exchanged and absolved from his parole until his equivalent has actually reached the lines of his friends. What evidence if any is furnished to the exchanged prisoner as to his full exchange under this article and from what department? I remain, colonel, your obedient servant, WM. W. DUFFIELD, Colonel Ninth Regiment Michigan Infantry. [Inclosure No. 1.] HEADQUARTERS, Louisville, Ky., November 8, 1862. Brig. Gen. L. THOMAS, Adjutant-General U. S. Army : Have the six companies of Ninth Michigan Volunteers captured at Murfreesborough, Tenn., July last been exchanged and shall they be sent into the field? J. T. BOYLE, Brigadier-General. [Inclosure No. 2.] WASHINGTON, November 10, 1862. Brig. Gen. J. T. BOYLE, Louisville, Ky.: The six companies of the Ninth Michigan have not been exchanged. W. HOFFMAN, Brig. Gen. J. T. BOYLE: Commissary-General of Prisoners. [Inclosure No. 3.] WASHINGTON, November 11, 1862. Enlisted men captured at Murfreesborough, Tenn., by General Forrest fully exchanged. Capt. M. Mansfield and Lieut. H. Barrows, Ninth Michigan Volunteers, are exchanged. Paroled troops not exchanged go to Camp Wallace, Columbus, Ohio. W. HOFFMAN, Commissary-General of Prisoners. GENERAL ORDERS, WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, No. 187. Washington, November 15, 1862. Maj. Gen. E. A. Hitchcock, U. S. Volunteers, is detailed as commissioner for the exchange of prisoners of war. By order of the Secretary of War: E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant-General. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, November 16, 1862. : Colonel LUDLOW, Agent for Exchange of Prisoners: You will please report what officers and men specified in the annexed telegram of Laz. Noble, adjutant-general of Indiana, dated at Indianapolis, November 15, 1862, and addressed to the Secretary of War, have been exchanged. Yours, truly, EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. [Inclosure.] INDIANAPOLIS, IND., November 15, 1862-9 p. m. Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: Indiana troops taken at Richmond, Ky., August 30, 1862: Twelfth, Sixteenth, Sixty-sixth, Sixty-ninth, Seventy-first and part of the Fiftyfifth Regiments; Brigadier-General Manson, Lieutenant-Colonels Williams and Stout, Major Kempton, 4 regimental adjutants, 1 quartermaster, 33 captains, 33 first lieutenants and 3,047 non-commissioned officers and privates. Taken at Munfordville, Ky., September 17, 1862: Part of Seventeenth and Seventy-fourth Regiments, Fiftieth, Sixtieth, Sixty-seventh, Sixty-eighth and Eighty-ninth Regiments; Colonels Wilder, Dunham, Owen, Emerson, King and Murray; Lieutenant-Colonels Templeton, Buehler, Shaw and Craven; Majors Wells and Cubberly, 5 adjutants, 3 quartermasters, 40 captains, 41 first lieutenants, 41 second lieutenants, 3,536 non-commissioned officers and privates. All in camp here awaiting exchange and ready to take the field. Rosters were sent by mail to General Thomas which he ought to have received ere this. Colonel Gooding, Twenty-second Indiana; Lieutenant-Colonel Dunn, Twenty-ninth Regiment; Lieutenant Mason, Thirteenth Battery; Quartermaster Igoe, Thirty-fifth Regiment; Lieutenant Turbit [Turbett], Eighteenth [Eightieth] Regiment; Capt. John H. Terry [Ferry, assistant quartermaster; First Lieutenants Davis, Thirtysixth Regiment, and Penner, Thirty-ninth [Forty-second] Regiment; Second Lieutenant Colman, Forty-second [Thirty-ninth] Regiment, all taken in Kentucky, are also here. LAZ. NOBLE, Adjutant-General of Indiana. [Indorsement.] WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, November 16, 1862. Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War. SIR: I have the honor to report that all the officers and men specified in the annexed telegram have been exchanged. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, WM. H. LUDLOW, Lieutenant-Colonel and Agent for Exchange of Prisoners. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, November 16, 1862. Major-General MCCLERNAND, Springfield, Ill.: All the Indiana troops taken at Richmond have been exchanged. This will increase the force for your expedition about 8,000. EDWIN M. STANTON, |