Lieutenant Colonel A. Y. Johnson, Second [Twenty-eighth] Kentucky Infantry, and Majors W. A. Coffey and F. W. Helveti, First Kentucky Cavalry. Colonel Quarles has given his parole to report to the Confederate officer appointed to receive Confederate prisoners of war at or near Vicksburg on the 12th of September next, and the other Confederate officers are paroled to report at the same place on the 16th of September, on which day the exchanged will be completed.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

W. HOFFMAN,

Colonel Third Infantry, Commissary-General of Prisoners.

[Copies of paroles inclosed omitted.]

OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,

Sandusky, Ohio, August 26, 1862.

Major W. S. PEIRSON,

Commanding Depot of Prisoners of War, Sandusky, Ohio.

MAJOR: Colonel P. Kinney, Fifty-sixth Ohio Volunteers; Lieutenant Colonel A. Y. Johnson, Twenty-eighth Kentucky Infantry, and Majors W. A. Coffey and F. W. Helveti, First Kentucky Cavalry, will be exchanged for Colonel W. A. Quarles, Forty-second Tennessee, Lieutenant Colonel W. T. Avery, First Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi, and Major J. S. Brown, Forty-sixth Tennessee, and Major J. R. Kavanaugh, Ninth Louisiana, respectively. To this end you will immediately send the four Confederate officers named, taking their paroles, to report to the Confederate officers appointed to receive Confederate prisoners of war at or near Vicksburg, Miss., the first named on or before the 12th proximo and the last three on or before the 16th proximo, on which days the exchange will be considered as complete. Colonel Quarles will be permitted to go via Saint Louis and Cairo and Major Brown via Louisville and Cairo by the river, unless authorized by the commander of the District of Kentucky to go via Paris, Tenn. The other officers will go directly to Cairo and thence by the river to Vicksburg. Let the parole be full to avoid detriment to the Unite States.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

W. HOFFMAN,

Colonel Third Infantry, Commissary-General of Prisoners.

OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,

Sandusky, Ohio, August 26, 1862.

Major W. S. PIERSON,

Commanding Depot of Prisoners of War, Sandusky, Ohio.

MAJOR: The Confederate prisoners of war now at the Sandusky depot will as soon as practicable be transferred via Cairo, Ill., to Vicksburg, Miss., for exchange. They will be prepared to leave at 6 o'clock on Friday morning, 29th, and will be accompanied by a guard of one company. All will be provided with three days' rations.

You will have duplicate rolls of the prisoners prepared which will embrace all present, all on parole and all who may be left behind sick or otherwise, with appropriate remarks accounting for the absentees. You will see that these rolls are complete and accurately made up and will put your certificate to this effect on the back of them. They