ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, September 30, 1862.

Major General JOHN E. WOOL,

Commanding Middle Department, Baltimore, Md.

GENERAL: In reply to your inquiry of the 28th instant the Secretary of War desires you to send the prisoners of war to Fort Monroe to be exchanged, except those who may be confined under circumstances seeming to indicate that they were spies. The case of Major Washington is not know in this office and you are respectfully requested to give such information as you may have in relation to him and the rebel officers supposed to be spies.

I am, &c.,

L. THOMAS,

Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
September 30, 1862-6 p. m.

Brevet Major-General SUMNER, Harper's Ferry:

Soldiers of our army taken prisoners and released on parole should be sent to Washington to report at Headquarters of Army.

The Confederate soldiers prisoners in your hands can be released on parole. Duplicate descriptive lists should be made of them and forwarded to the Adjutant-General at Washington. These list should set forth the name, rank, regiment, where taken, when taken, when paroled, by whom paroled and when and where released.

R. B. MARCY

Chief of Staff.

GENERAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Numbers 147.
Washington, September 30, 1862.

The following lists of officers of the U. S. service who have been exchanged as prisoners of war, September 21, 1862, at Aiken's Landing, Va., for prisoners taken in arms against the United States, are published for the information of all concerned:

I. -List of officers exchanged and for whom.

Colonel P. Kinney, Fifty-sixth Ohio Volunteers, for Colonel W. A. Quarles, Tennessee.

Colonel J. S. Crocker, Ninety-third New York Volunteers, for Colonel [Lorman] Chancellor, One hundred and thirty-second Virginia Militia.

Colonel Milton Cogswell, Tammany Regiment (New York volunteers), for Colonel [J. M.] Gee, [Fifteenth Arkansas].

Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Benedict, [jr.,] Seventy-third New York Volunteers, for Lieutenant Colonel C. H. Tyler, C. S. Army.

Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Bowman, Eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers [three months], for Lieutenant Colonel F. T. Nicholls, Eighth Louisiana.

Major George F. Smith, Sixty-first Pennsylvania Volunteers, for Major [R.] Snowden Andrews, Maryland artillery.

Major Charles E. Livingston, Twenty-sixth [Seventy-sixty] New York Volunteers, for Captain [A. O.] Murphy, Louisiana Navy.

Major Joseph H. Whittlesey, Fifty U. S. Cavalry, for Major [G. M.] Edgar, Edgar's battalion [Virginia infantry].

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