In arranging for the exchange was no provision made to bring away the sick and feeble? Should not such have been cared for first? Thinking that perhaps the matter had been overlooked by the Government we call your attention to it, earnestly requesting that you will as soon as possible take such measures in their behalf as you think best. We have more than a general interest for two or three from our own town are among the number. We believe that it is unparalleled in the history of civilized warfare that men who have fought nobly for their country and have been taken prisoners on the field of battle should be overlooked or uncared for in an exchange of prisoners, and should be left shelterless on an island, exposed to the vertical rays of the sun and scarcely food enough to keep them alive simply because of the expense or trouble of providing a conveyance for them. We would not complain. If there is no relief we submit. The object of this communication is to call your attention to the facts, believing that you will do all in your power to secure their release.

We are, very respectfully, yours,

H. G. ANDREWS,

E. PARK,

L. BAKER,

Town War Committee of La Fayette.

[Indorsement.]

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Albany, August 28, 1862.

Respectfully referred to Honorable E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War.

E. D. MORGAN.

HDQRS. MILITARY DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON, D. C.

August 26, 1862.

General DIX, Fort Monroe:

Have you been able to be anything in regard to the exchange of civil prisoners? Please write.

[JAMES W. WADSWORTH.]

Brigadier-General.

FORT MONROE, August 26, 1862.

General WADSWORTH:

I have written Mr. Ould a letter and have notice of its receipt. A flag of truce has gone up to-day with prisoners of war. I may learn something to-morrow.

JOHN A. DIX,
Major-General.

OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,

Sandusky, Ohio, August 26, 1862.

General L. THOMAS,

Adjutant-General U. S. Army, Washington, D. C.

GENERAL: I have the honor to report that I have to-day directed the release of Colonel W. A. Quarles, Forty-second Tennessee; Lieutenant Colonel W. T. Avery, First Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi; Major J. R. Kavanaugh, Ninth Louisiana, and Major J. S. Brown, Forty-sixth Tennessee, in exchange for Colonel P. Kinney, Fifty-sixth Ohio Volunteers;