your command direct the quartermaster to hire as many as may be necessary. If the rolls can be prepared in less time let it be done, and retain the rolls till I call for them. The rolls heretofore called for by this office, together with the return for June, must be forwarded immediately.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

W. HOFFMAN,

Colonel Third Infantry, Commissary-General of Prisoners.

(Same to Colonel C. W. B. Allison, commanding Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio; Colonel D. G. Rose, commanding Camp Morton, Indianapolis, Ind.)

OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,

Detroit, Mich., July 31, 1862.

Major JOHN G. FONDA, Commanding Camp Butler, Springfield, Ill.

MAJOR: Your letters of the 21st and 24th instant are received. Retain in confinement the citizen charged with harboring escaped prisoners and furnish me with a statement of the particulars in the case with the names of the witness, and do the same with any others against whom similar charges may be preferred. In the case referred to in your letter of the 24th send a description of him to the commanding officer at Cairo and ascertain if anything is known of him there. In the meantime if he is unruly or gives any trouble put him in irons.

Hereafter the accounts of private physicians with your certificate attached must be referred to the Surgeon-General for payment.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

W. HOFFMAN,

Colonel Third Infantry, Commissary-General of Prisoners.

OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,

Detroit, Mich., July 31, 1862.

Major F. F. FLINT,

Sixteenth U. S. Infantry, Commanding Military Prison, Alton, Ill.

MAJOR: Your letter of the 24th instant is received and I have to say in reply that the effects of deceased prisoners of war if not taken possession of by relatives present will be disposed of in any way you see proper for the benefit of the sick. If the Honorable A. G. porter desires an interview with Mr. Brown with the hope of effecting his release on the ground that he is a Union man the interview may be granted; not otherwise.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

W. HOFFMAN,

Colonel Third Infantry, Commissary-General of Prisoners.

OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,

Detroit, Mich., July 31, 1862.

Captain H. M. LAZELLE,

Eighth Infantry, U. S. Army, Columbus, Ohio.

CAPTAIN: Please say to Colonel Allison that I recall paroles granted to prisoners at Camp Chase giving them the privilege of remaining in or about Columbus, except in the two cases where their return to prison would probably lead to personal violence or in cases where from ill-health it is absolutely that the paroles should be continued.