to which you refer, yourself, First Lieutenants Duffield and Wright and Second Lieutenant Dickinson and the enlisted men of six companies of the Michigan Ninth are declared exchanged, and os far all doubt is removed. By the recent exchange arranged at Aiken's Landing November 11 the following named officers of the Ninth Michigan are exchanged, viz: Capts. W. Wilkinson, Company A; Oliver C. rounds, Company B; Charles V. De Land, Company C; First Lieutenants Samuel A. Wiggins, Company H; Thomas J. Conely, Company K; W. A. Hull, Company G; J. C. Purdy, Company C; E. Marble, Company F; and Second Lieutenants A. M. Dobbelaere, Company A; N. r. Jersey, Company B, and W. r. Sellon, Company G. These I believe cover all the members of the Ninth Michigan who were on parole, but if there are any still not exchanged I will be glad if you will let me know, as it is probably owing to some confusion in the rolls.

An order will be published to-morrow or next day announcing all the recent exchanges according to the place of capture, and it is intended to cover all our paroled troops up to the 11th November, exclusive of a part of those taken at Harper's Ferry. The exchanges are fully perfected and the announcement in the order relieves every officer and soldier from the responsibilities of his parole. the order comes from the War Department through the Adjutant-General's Office and coffers all classes. Individual certificates are not given. In the meantime the announcement which I make to you of the several exchanges above named is made by authority of the War Department and restores the several officers to duty. Your regiment now in the field, it is proper that the officers exchanged should be with it, and I am directed by the General-in-Chief to say that yourself and those of the officers above named who are absent will immediately join.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

W. HOFFMAN,

Colonel Third Infantry, Commissary-General of Prisoners.

P. S. -Please inform Governor Blair of the contents of this letter.

W. H.

HDQRS. PROVOST-MARSHAL-GENERAL OF KENTUCKY,
Louisville, Ky., November 24, 1862.

Brigadier-General BOYLE,

Commanding Western District of Kentucky.

GENERAL: In obedience to your order I have the honor to inclose to you a full report of prisoners received at military prison in this city since the 30th day of October. the final action in their respective cases is as follows, to wit:

Prisoners of war sent to Vicksburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,417

Recent recruits from Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

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Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,491

Regular deserters from rebel army who claimed to belong

to Northern States, consisting of Irish and Germans,

discharged on oath and permitted to return to said

States. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Deserters, recent recruits who joined the Confederate Army

whilst in Kentucky, discharged on oath and bond for their

future good conduct. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Deserters remaining in the prison to be disposed of. . . . . . . . . 38

Political prisoners forwarded to Camp Chase per order. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Political prisoners discharged on oath and bond. . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Sent to Vicksburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Remaining in prison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

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Total number received. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,030