ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, July 19, 1862.

Colonel WILLIAM HOFFMAN, U. S. Army, Detroit, Mich.:

The Secretary of War is not satisfied in regard to your reports concerning prisoners, and directs you to repair to this city without delay.

L. THOMAS,

Adjutant-General.

BERKELEY, VA., July 19, 1862.

Honorable EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.

SIR: About 350 of our wounded taken prisoners in the recent battles having been released on parole have arrived from Richmond. Among them are a number of officers. They will go down the river to-day. I shall this morning send to City Point for another party of our wounded.

G. B. McCLELLAN,

Major-General, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
Saint Louis, July 19, 1862.

N. B. BAKER, Clinton, Iowa:

Paroled prisoners are obliged to do guard, police and fatigue duty for the proper order of their own corps. Those who refuse are mutineers. *

H. W. HALLECK,

Major-General.

FORT MONROE, VA., July 19, 1862.

Honorable E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War:

I have just arrived from Harrison's Landing and leave in half an hour for Washington in the Ariel. It is important that I should see you to-night in regard to prisoners of war and return here immediately. Will you have a carriage sent to the landing, Sixth avenue [street], for me? I will come directly to the War Office, and I hope be with you at 9 o'clock this evening.

JOHN A. DIX,

Major-General.

OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,

Detroit, Mich., July 19, 1862.

Honorable DAVID TOD, Governor of Ohio.

DEAR SIR: I inclose a copy of the telegram+ received from the War Department in relation to paroled prisoners at Columbus, from which you will perceive that paroles are to be granted only under the circumstances provided for in the two orders which I inclosed to you this morning. I told Colonel Mulligan I would expect him to carry out the regulations [as] to visitors very rigidly and I request you will grant permits only to persons sent by Governor Johnson for political purposes. Of several requests for interviews which he sent to Sandusky there was but one at all of this character and the interview should not have

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* In relation to this matter, see also quotation from Halleck in Ketchum to Thomas, July 28, post.

+ Not found.

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