Reserve Corps, who was wounded in the battle of June 30, and subsequently taken prisoner at the temporary hospital established on the New Market road.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

[GEO. B. McCLELLAN,]

Major-General, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
July 18, 1862.

General D. H. HILL.

GENERAL: Your note of yesterday* duly reached me. I feared that you might have been waiting some time at Carter's (Shirley's) and that you might deem me guilty of neglect and discourtesy in failing to inform you of the cause of the non-appearance of General Dix. I beg, general, that you will think no more of the matter and let it pass from your mind as it has from mine. Mistakes of the kind will happen in spite of us.

Yours, very truly,

[GEO. B. McCLELLAN,]

Major-General, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
July 18, 1862.

Brigadier-General STONEMAN, Commanding Cavalry.

GENERAL: I have the honor to inform you that the session of the commission appointed to meet at Haxall's to negotiate for an exchange of prisoners has been adjourned until Tuesday next, and I am directed to say that the scouts of the cavalry along the river will meanwhile be made as usual.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

[S. WILLIAMS,]

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HAXALL'S LANDING, July 18, 1862.

[MEMORANDUM.]

A difference having arisen between the undersigned in regard to a general exchange of prisoners of war it is agreed that the exchange of prisoners shall go on, man for man and officer for officer, as heretofore, until the authorities at Washington can be consulted.

JOHN A. DIX,

Major-General.

D. H. HILL.

Major-General.

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, July 18, 1862.

Colonel WILLIAM HOFFMAN,

Commissary-General of Prisoners, Detroit.

COLONEL: I have yours of the 14th instant. As there is now a probability that an arrangement for a general exchange of prisoners

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