[Inclosure.

HEADQUARTERS CONFEDERATE FORCES,
August 23, 1862.

Brigadier General GEORGE W. MORGAN,

Commanding U. S. Forces, Cumberland Gap.

GENERAL: Your communication* of yesterday to General McCown having been referred to me I have the honor to reply that as the prisoners you released belonged for the most part to Virginia regiments they should have been sent to the nearest Confederate command.

I decline to accept them in exchange for the same number sent from here. They will be sent to their homes there to await their exchange.

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

E. KIRBY SMITH,

Major-General, Commanding.

OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,

Columbus, Ohio, August 23, 1862.

Captain R. BURR,

Assistant Quartermaster, U. S. Army, Columbus, Ohio.

CAPTAIN: There is in the possession of General Wright, quartermaster-general of Ohio, a box containing the side-arms of the Confederate officers, prisoners of war, which I request you will have forwarded to Captain H. M. Lazelle, Eighth Infantry, U. S. Army, at Vicksburg, Miss.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

W. HOFFMAN,

Colonel Third Infantry, Commissary-General of Prisoners.

HDQRS. MILITARY DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON, D. C.

August 23, 1862.

Major General JOHN A. DIX, Fort Monroe, Va.:

I have the honor to inclose a list of Union prisoners in addition to those forwarded yesterday. They are confined in the Libby Prison at Richmond:

R. C. Eveleth, sutler, seventeenth Regiment New York Volunteers; William Westawary, sutler, Fifth Regiment Michigan Volunteers; R. E. Parker, sutler, Second Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers; J. W. Laughlin, sutler's department, Second Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers; W. Kern, sutler's department, Fifty-fifth Regiment New York Volunteers; G. Mills and C. E. Gildersleve, sutler's clerks, Seventeenth Regiment New York Volunteers; C. B. Mann, sutler's clerk, Eighteenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers; Samuel May, sutler's clerk, Twentieth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers; William Phillips, sutler's clerk, Fifth Regiment Michigan Volunteers; G. R. Salisbury and William O. Chapin, sutler's clerks, Fourth Regiment Vermont Volunteers; L. G. Parkhurst and E. B. Fisher, sutler's clerks, Second Regiment Vermont Volunteers.

All the above named were captured on the 13th of June near White House Landing, Va. S. S. Mann, sutler, Eighteenth Massachusetts,

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*Not found.

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