other side is an abstract of the regiments, officers, and number in each, showing at a glance the number of available men to be immediately thrown into the service whenever an exchange is effected. We have in the State besides these a very considerable number who are being hunted up and brought to camp with a view to reporting them for exchange.

Very respectfully,

LAZ. NOBLE,

Adjutant-General of Indiana.

[Inclosure.]

Rolls of paroled Indiana Volunteers, transmitted to General L. Thomas, Adjutant-General U. S. Army, with recapitulation of contents of each.

Lieut

Regiments. Where captured. Colo- enant Majo- Adju-

nels. colo- rs. tants

nels.

Twelfth. Richmond, Ky. ---- 1 1 ----

Sixteenth. do. ---- ---- ---- ----

Sixty-sixth. do. ---- ---- ---- 1

Sixty-ninth. do. ---- 1 ---- 1

Seventy-first. do. ---- ---- ---- 1

Total.

---------------

---- 2 1 3

Seventeenth. Munfordville, Ky 1 ---- ---- ----

Fiftieth. do. 1 ---- 1 1

Sixtieth. do. 1 1 ---- 1

Sixty-seventh. do. 1 1 ---- 1

Sixty-eighth. do. 1 1 ---- 1

Seventy-fourth. do. ---- ---- ---- ----

Eighty-ninth. do. 1 1 1 1

Total.

---------------

6 4 2 5

Grand total.

---------------

6 6 3 8

CONTINUATION:

Non-com

Quarter Capta- First Second mission

Regiments. masters ins. lieute- lieute- ed offi

nants. nants. cers and

privates

Twelfth.

------

3 8 5 681

Sixteenth.

------

8 6 6 567

Sixty-sixth.

------

4 3 4 587

Sixty-ninth.

------

6 9 6 590

Seventy-first. 1 6 7 8 622

Total. 1 33 33 29 3,047

Seventeenth.

------

2 2 2 92

Fiftieth.

------

4 6 6 540

Sixtieth.

------

6 4 5 391

Sixty-seventh. 1 9 10 9 888

Sixty-eighth. 1 7 7 7 540

Seventy-fourth.

------

2 2 2 169

Eighty-ninth. 1 10 10 10 926

Total. 3 40 41 41 3,546

Grand total. 4 73 74 70 6,593

HEADQUARTERS, Camp Chase, November 11, 1862.

Colonel WILLIAM HOFFMAN,
Commissary-General of Prisoners, Washington, D. C.

COLONEL: Yours of the 7th instant came duly to hand and contents noted. The distinction drawn in your letter of instruction of 22nd September between Confederate prisoners of war and irregulars is specific and I believe is correctly comprehended by me. In the specific cases to which I called your attention my understanding was that the prisoners were Confederate prisoners of war for exchange unless they were willing to take the oath of allegiance, and without any promise to release them they declared their willingness to take the oath. The minors and those sick I discharged on taking the oath--perhaps twenty in all.

The sending of these men from Kentucky to this post when it would have been so much less expensive to have sent them direct to Cairo, the fact of their being nearly all Kentuckians, many of them living in neighborhoods infested with guerrilla parties, together with the instructions of the Secretary of War that such only were to be released as would evidently respect their oaths, and Governor Tod's approbation