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the basis of the cartel between General Dix and General Hill. Adjt. General W. C. Turned may be exchanged in like manner.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
FORT HAMILTON, September 3, 1862.
ADJUTANT - GENERAL U. S. ARMY,
GENERAL: F. E. Mather, a citizen of New York, came down with a request from Mr. Pierrepont that I should turn over to him James K. Botts, a prisoner now in Fort Lafayette, confined by the Secretary of War. I wish to ask if Mr. Pierrepont has the power to release a prisoner from Fort Lafayette. An immediate reply will oblige.
MARTIN BURKE,
Lieutenant - Colonel, Third Artillery.
WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, September 3, 1862.
Lieutenant - Colonel BURKE, Fort Lafayette:
Your telegram has just received. No one but the President or myself has any right or authority verbal or in writing to direct the discharge of any prisoner in your custody. I do not doubt your desire to obey my orders and I have never complained nor has any reason to complain of your faithful discharge of your duty.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
ADJUTANT - GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, September 3, 1862.
COMMANDING OFFICER, Annapolis, Md.:
Send a complete list to date of paroled prisoners at Annapolis, giving rank and regiment; then send each week a list of such as arrive at Annapolis after this date.
L. THOMAS,
Adjutant - General.
OFFICE COMMISSARY - GENERAL OF PRISONERS,
Alton, Ill., September 3, 1862.
Colonel JESSE HILDEBRAND,
Seventy - seventh Ohio vols., Commanding Military Prison, Alton, Ill.
COLONEL: The Confederate prisoners of war at the Alton Military Prison will be immediately transferred to Vicksburg, Miss., for exchange and you will at once make all the necessary arrangements. A guard of one company will be sent with them and you will furnish the whole with cooked rations to serve them to Cairo, where their supplies will be renewed. Coffee will be made on the boat. Colonel L. B. Parsons, director of transportation at Saint Louis, will furnish the necessary steam - boat transportation on your notifying him when the party will be ready to leave and its strength. Direct the commander of the guard to report to General Tuttle, commanding at Cairo, on the arrival of the boat at that point. Duplicate rolls will be sent with the prisoners whose accuracy you must certify to on the back of them, which rolls
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