ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, September 19, 1862.

Colonel WILLIAM HOFFMAN, Detroit, Mich:

Collect small parties of rebel prisoners at Cairo and send them to Vicksburg as convenient. Colonel Kinney's exchange is not complete until the commissioner is heard from.

L. THOMAS,

Adjutant-General.

ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, September 19, 1862.

Colonel P. KINNEY, Fifty-sixth Ohio Volunteers, Portsmouth, Ohio:

Your exchange is not complete until the commissioner is heard from.

L. THOMAS,

Adjutant-General.

WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, September 19, 1862.

Brigadier General L. THOMAS,

Adjutant-General U. S. Army, Washington.

SIR: The Secretary of War directs that you proceed to Annapolis, Md., on duty connected with the camp of paroled prisoners and that you return to this city after completing the same.

I have the honor, &c.,

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

DETROIT, MICH., September 19, 1862.

General THOMAS, Adjutant-General:

I desire to be informed what my duties are in carrying out the cartel for the exchange of prisoners. I have only a newspaper copy of the cartel.

W. HOFFMAN,

Commissary-General of Prisoners.

OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,

Detroit, Mich., September 19, 1862.

Colonel C. W. B. ALLISON,

Commanding Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio.

COLONEL: Your letter of the 17th is received. I will give you in a day or two instructions in relation to the disposition of prisoners of the Confederate Army who may be received hereafter at Camp Chase. No account of the prisoners' fund at Camp Chase has yet been furnished to this office. Please forward an account for August immediately, and I must call your particular attention to paragraph 5 of circular of regulations for your guidance in the disbursement of the fund and the manner of accounting for it. All is done under your authority and you will be held accountable that it is properly done. In making up the account of the fund state each item of expenditure fully, so as to