by me before Wood came here and I so informed him. I desire instructions as to the exchange of Missouri State Guard prisoners, of the independent and partisan ranger prisoners and as to whether the Harper's Ferry prisoners are to be exchanged. Please send the rolls of Shiloh prisoners. Please show this telegram to the Secretary of War.

WM. H. LUDLOW,

Lieutenant-Colonel, &c.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE OHIO, Numbers 49.
In Camp, October 26, 1862.

I. All recruits for the rebel army captured or arrested by troops of this command will be regarded as prisoners of war and sent without delay to Vicksburg and there paroled and left subject to exchange.

II. All persons who have actively aided or abetted in the invasion of Kentucky by rebel troops within the last three months will be immediately arrested and sent to Vicksburg, Miss., and forbidden to return to Kentucky. This order will not be understood as including persons indicted or held by the civil authorities for trial nor will arrests be made on suspicion or insufficient evidence of guilt.

Brigadier General J. T. Boyle is charged with the execution of these orders and will give such special instructions as maybe found necessary.

By command of Major-General Buell:

JAMES B. FRY,

Colonel and Chief of Staff.

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, October 27, 1862.

Adjutant-General THOMAS.

GENERAL: Direct the commissary of prisoners to release Turner S. Foster, a rebel prisoner at Camp Chase, on his parole to procure the release and exchange of Edmund Cooper, a citizen of Tennessee, now a prisoner in the hands of the rebels.

Yours, &c.,

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,
Saint Louis, Mo., October 27, 1862.

Brigadier-General MERRILL, Commanding Northeast District:

At the earnest request of many Union men in Monroe County and vicinity the punishment of death ordered by the military authorities in the case of E. D. Major is commuted to imprisonment in the Alton Prison during the continuance of the war.

S. R. CURTIS,

Major-General.

WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, D. C., October 27, 1862.

Lieutenant-Colonel LUDLOW,

Acting Commissioner for Exchange of Prisoners, Fort Monroe.

SIR: Your telegram of the 26th instant was received and submitted to the Secretary of War. I have telegraphed to you that the Secretary

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