field, General Tyler does not wish to interfere with any of the Government allowances to the men.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

FRANK S. BOND,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Saint Paul, Minn., November 14, 1862.

Brigadier General L. THOMAS,

Adjutant-General of the Army, Washington, D. C.

GENERAL: Herewith inclosed I have the honor to transmit for your consideration a letter of a soldier of the Second Minnesota Regiment [Battery], who after having been taken prisoner of war had to take an oath of allegiance to the rebel Government before being released. Please inform me what disposition is to be made of that soldier.

I remain, general, very respectfully,

OSCAR MALMROS,

Adjutant-General.

[First indorsement.]

ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, November 26, 1862.

Respectfully referred to the commissary-general of prisoners.

By order of the Secretary of War:

THOMAS M. VINCENT,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

[Second indorsement.]

OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,

November 29, 1862.

I have informed the adjutant-general of the State of Minnesota that the parole in this case continues in force only till the exchange of the soldier. Such paroles are in violation of the cartel and should not be exacted.

Respectfully referred to Lieutenant-Colonel Ludlow, agent for exchange of prisoners.

W. HOFFMAN,

Colonel Third Infantry, Commissary-General of Prisoners.

[Third indorsement.]

FORT MONROE, January 8, 1863.

Exchanged.

WM. H. LUDLOW,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Agent for Exchange of Prisoners.

[Inclosure.]

MINNEAPOLIS, November 11, 1862.

OSCAR MALMROS, Esq.,

Adjutant-General of the State of Minnesota.

DEAR SIR: Learning it to be my duty to report myself to you I hasten to give you a brief account of my capture and release by a band of Morgan's men in Kentucky. On the 24th of last April I left Fort Snelling as a private in the Second Minnesota Battery, and on the 5th of October while marching through the State of Kentucky with the