to Memphis to await the action of our Government. I regard this as a fair breach of the cartel. White was not a Confederate soldier or even guerrilla, and if the Confederate authorities want to offset the killing of White you can quote plenty of private murders committed by their adherents. I have the honor to be, your obedient servant, W. T. SHERMAN, Major-General, Commanding. Don't make known what you propose until you know whether these four men are ready to be exchanged and then await an answer by telegraph from General Pemberton. HEADQUARTERS C. S. CAVALRY, Brigadier-General BLUNT, Evansville, Ark., November 23, 1862. Commanding U. S. Forces in Northwest Arkansas. GENERAL: I have the honor to state that the sick of the U. S. Army left at Fayetteville, Ark., were taken as prisoners of war contrary to General Hindman's order. The order was given to me to parole the sick, but before I could have it executed the provost-guard (under Colonel MacDonald) had sent a part or all below as prisoners of war. These men are now at Little Rock. General Hindman desires me to request of you a list of their names. When that list is furnished these men will be paroled and sent to the nearest Federal post at Helena. General Hindman learns that you have had arrested a number of citizens to be kept as hostages until the prisoners referred to are paroled. He instructs me to say that he is influenced by no threat of punishing those citizens, whose arrest is a great outrage, but by the sole consideration that the men left sick in hospital were taken as prisoners against his express order and contrary to our custom. Very respectfully, JOHN S. MARMADUKE, Brigadier-General, Commanding. Col. W. H. LUDLOW, Agent for WASHINGTON, November 23, 1862. Exchange of Prisoners: Have the officers taken at Shiloh been exchanged? When and where? W. HOFFMAN, Commissary-General of Prisoners. FORT MONROE, VA., November 23, 1862. Hon. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War: All the officers taken at Shiloh were exchanged at Aiken's Landing November 11. The lists of them and all other U. S. officers exchanged. amounting to over 900 and carefully prepared by me, are in the office of the Adjutant-General ready for publishing. I prepared and also left at same place a list of over 1,500 Confederate officers declared exchanged. The difference between them was made up on rank and file. WM. H. LUDLOW, Lieutenant-Colonel and Agent for Exchange of Prisoners. (Copies sent to Maj. Gen. H. W. Halleck, General-in-Chief, and Colonel Hoffman, commissary-general of prisoners.) DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, November 24, 1862. JOHN VAN BUREN, Esq., New York. SIR: Your note of the 22d instant requesting an interview on professional business with the Hon. Pierre Soulé has been received and referred to the Secretary of War, who alone has authority in the matter. WILLIAM H. SEWARD. I am, your obedient servant, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Madison, Wis., November 24, 1862. Col. WILLIAM HOFFMAN, Commissary-General of Prisoners, Washington, D. C. SIR: I inclose a copy of a petition forwarded to me signed by fortyeight of the Wisconsin paroled men at Annapolis and beg the favor of your attention to the subject. In regard to the return of these men to the State I have no wish to interfere with any established rules of the Government in regard to them, but the complaints referred to are of long standing and fully corroborated by correspondence from officers and from agents of the State who have visited the camps. For the honor of the service these things ought not to be allowed to continue. I am informed that the States of lowa and Ohio have obtained the privilege of having their paroled men sent to camp elsewhere, and if so I desire the same privilege. From recent publication of general orders I notice that a large number of prisoners have been exchanged. I desire to know what Wisconsin officers and men are included in the exchange. Our men are scattered in various camps through the country or at home, anxious to return to duty, and I will be obliged to you for information on the subject. Yours, respectfully, EDWARD SALOMON, [Inclosure.] CAMP PAROLED PRISONERS, Near Annapolis, Md., November 15, 1862. His Excellency E. SALOMON, Governor of Wisconsin: We, the undersigned, enlisted men of Wisconsin troops and paroled prisoners at Annapolis, would respectfully represent that the camp where we are kept is not a fit place for men to stay in on account of its filthy condition and the want of proper discipline. Men are being assaulted, robbed and killed. Drunkenness and gambling are raging to a fearful extent and threaten to destroy the morale of even the best among us. We would therefore ask to be delivered from this horde of crime and misery and to be permitted to go to our own State, there to remain until we shall again have the privilege to join our comrades in the field. [Signed by forty-eight Wisconsin paroled men.] HDQRS. FIRST DIVISION, ARMY OF THE FRONTIER, Brig. Gen. JOHN S. MARMADUKE, Commanding Confederate Forces. GENERAL: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated Evansville, Ark., November 23, 1862. The sick soldiers belonging to the U. S. Army taken prisoners at Fayetteville by Colonel MacDonald, to whom your letter refers, belonged to General Schofield's command. I have no means of obtaining a list of the names or their number, and will have to refer the matter to General Schofield, who will no doubt attend to it without delay. General Hindman is in error in supposing that I have caused the arrest of citizens to be held in hostage for the amount of the prisoners referred to. I have frequently caused the arrest of persons claiming to be citizens who were, in fact, cowardly assassins, commonly known by the cognomen of bushwhackers, and I observe by General Orders, No. 17, of July 17, 1862, issued by General Hindman, a printed copy of which I have in my possession, captured lately from Colonel MacDonald, this system of warfare is recognized by the Confederate Government. It is certainly contrary to the usages of civilized warfare and can be regarded only as cowardly assassination; and I have the honor to inform you that when such prisoners are captured by my command I shall cause to be hanged six of them for every one of my men who shall lose his life by the hands of such miscreants. I am not in the habit of arresting citizens without good cause, and purpose that my actions shall be governed by the prescribed rules of civilized warfare, and I may here state as a fact that I passed a large number of Confederate soldiers wounded in the late fight (Newtonia) which I neither took prisoners nor paroled. The same was true of the Confederate wounded in the recent battle near Maysville. I have the honor to inform you that about the 10th of October I sent to the Confederate lines thirty prisoners of war in charge of one Captain Taylor (Confederate) for exchange, with a letter addressed to General Rains, then supposed to be in command of Confederate forces, and up to this time have had no return from them. Good faith requires that an equal number of Federal prisoners be sent to our lines without further delay. I have further to inform you that I have at present fifty-one Confederate prisoners of war, including seven released on parole, that I will exchange in accordance with the cartel at any time and place agreed upon, and would suggest Evansville as the place for such a change to take place under a flag of truce. Very respectfully, Col. WILLIAM HOFFMAN, JAMES G. BLUNT, Brigadier-General, Commanding. CHICAGO, ILL., November 24, 1862. Commissary-General of Prisoners, Washington, D. C. COLONEL: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter* of the 20th instant informing me that the list of officers of my staff whom I desire to have exchanged had been forwarded to the officer intrusted with negotiations for exchanges at Fortress Monroe. You do not state that my own name was included. This perhaps arises from the fact that the request for my own exchange was previously made to Colonel Kelton. I will thank you to see that I am not omitted. I will also state that Samuel Icher, a private of the Thirty-seventh Illinois Volunteers, who has been on duty at my headquarters as an orderly. was captured and paroled at Harper's Ferry, but his name was not included in the lists furnished by either of the regiments (his own not being there). I would esteem it an especial favor if you will include his name among those to be exchanged. The Ninth Vermont and Sixty-fifth Illinois Infantry are at this post not yet exchanged, being a part of the force surrendered at Harper's * Omitted. Ferry. They are anxious to take the field with me and I desire very much to have them. I will thank you to inform me what their prospects are for exchange. My address for the present is Chicago, Ill. JULIUS WHITE, Brigadier-General, U. S. Volunteers. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, November 24, 1862. Governor SALOMON, Madison, Wis.: The Secretary of War directs me to say that you were informed in answer to your telegrams respecting the disposition of the prisoners. arrested by you that the subject was under the consideration of the President, and that as soon as his decision was made it would be com municated to you. The matter will probably be disposed of at Cabinet meeting to-morrow. In the meantime the Secretary sees no objection to your liberating on parole such of the prisoners as you deem proper and turning over to General Pope's custody such as require to be held in restraint. The general will be instructed to take them in charge. C. P. BUCKINGHAM, Brigadier-General and Assistant Adjutant-General. WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, COMMANDING OFFICER, Fort Delaware, Del.: None of the prisoners confined at your post will be released under order of the War Department of the 22d instant without special instructions from the Department. By order of the Secretary of War: E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant-General. (Copies to commanding officers Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, and Fort Lafayette, New York Harbor). OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS, Col. J. P. TAYLOR, Commissary-General of Subsistence, Washington, D. C. COLONEL: The Secretary of War directs that no payments for commutation of rations to paroled or exchanged prisoners of war for the time they were held by the rebels be made except on accounts, or rolls, which have been submitted for the approbation of the Secretary of War through this office. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, W. HOFFMAN, Colonel Third Infantry, Commissary-General of Prisoners. OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS, Col. W. W. DUFFIELD, Washington, D. C., November 24, 1862. Ninth Michigan Volunteers, Detroit, Mich. COLONEL: Your letter of the 15th is just received through General Robertson, adjutant-general, and I hasten to reply. In the general orders to which you refer, yourself, First Lieutenants Duffield and Wright and Second Lieutenant Dickinson and the enlisted men of six companies of the Michigan Ninth are declared exchanged, and so far all doubt is removed. By the recent exchange arranged at Aiken's Landing November 11 the following-named officers of the Ninth Michigan are exchanged, viz: Capts. W. Wilkinson, Company A; Oliver C. Rounds, Company B; Charles V. De Land, Company C; First Lients. Samuel A. Wiggins, Company H; Thomas J. Conely, Company K; W. A. Hull, Company G; J. C. Purdy, Company C; E. Marble, Company F; and Second Lieuts. A. M. Dobbelaere, Company A; N. R. Jersey, Company B, and W. R. Sellon, Company G. These I believe cover all the members of the Ninth Michigan who were on parole, but if there are any still not exchanged I will be glad if you will let me know, as it is probably owing to some confusion in the rolls. An order will be published to-morrow or next day announcing all the recent exchanges according to the place of capture, and it is intended to cover all our paroled troops up to the 11th November, exclusive of a part of those taken at Harper's Ferry. The exchanges are fully perfected and the announcement in the order relieves every officer and soldier from the responsibilities of his parole. The order comes from the War Department through the Adjutant-General's Office and covers all classes. Individual certificates are not given. In the meantime the announcement which I make to you of the several exchanges above named is made by authority of the War Department and restores the several officers to duty. Your regiment now in the field, it is proper that the officers exchanged should be with it, and I am directed by the Generalin-Chief to say that yourself and those of the officers above named who are absent will immediately join. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, W. HOFFMAN, Colonel Third Infantry, Commissary-General of Prisoners. P. S.-Please inform Governor Blair of the contents of this letter. W. H. HDQRS. PROVOST-MARSHAL-GENERAL OF KENTUCKY, Brigadier-General BOYLE, Commanding Western District of Kentucky. GENERAL: In obedience to your order I have the honor to inclose to you a full report of prisoners received at military prison in this city since the 30th day of October. The final action in their respective cases is as follows, to wit: Regular deserters from rebel army who claimed to belong to Northern States, consisting of Irish and Germans, discharged on oath and permitted to return to said States.. 190 Deserters, recent recruits who joined the Confederate Army whilst in Kentucky, discharged on oath and bond for their future good conduct. 186 |