HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
June 14, 1862.

General R. E. LEE,

Commanding Army of Northern Virginia, Richmond.

SIR: Lieutenant Fellers, Company G, Thirteenth Regiment of South Carolina Infantry, is now at Fortress Monroe waiting to be exchanged, according to the information I have from the War Department, for Lieutenant Underhill, of the Eleventh Regiment of New York Volunteers, who is said to be a prisoner at Richmond. I am prepared to send Lieutenant Fellers within your lines at City Point upon an intimation from you that Lieutenant Underhill has been released.

I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

GEO. B. McCLELLAN,

Major-General, Commanding.

[Indorsement.]

General LEE:

No arrangement of the sort has been made and individual exchanges are declined.

We will exchange generally or according to some principle, but not by arbitrary selections.

G. W. RANDOLPH,

Secretary of War.

CORINTH, MISS., June 14, 1862.

Major-General POPE:

I think it will be well to make as many of the enemy give their parole as possible; still it would not be worth while to pursue those who have deserted and are on their home. I would come and see you but have for several days been confined to my tent with the "evacuation of Corinth. "

H. W. HALLECK,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
Corinth, Miss., June 14, 1862.

General G. J. PILLOW, Oxford, Miss.

GENERAL: I have to acknowledge the receipt of yours of the 9th instant. * While putting no obstacle in the way of any peaceful citizen returning to his home if he comes with proper intentions I have uniformly declined issuing passports or personal safeguards to persons outside of our lines. I cannot make an exception in this case.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

H. W. HALLECK,

Major-General, Commanding.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, Numbers 103.
New Orleans, June 14, 1862.

Theodore Lieb, of New Orleans, George William Craig, late first officer of the ship City of New York, and Frank Newton, late private in the Thirteenth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, upon their own.

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* Reference to Pillow to Halleck, Vol. III, this Series, p. 669.

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